A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent cosmic collisions that shaped the planets. Unlocking the Mystery of Missing ...

Chinese scientists have come up with a way to create a high-quality “super diamond” in the laboratory with a hardness far ...

You can explore 4.5 billion years of our solar system's history at Arizona State University's Meteorite Gallery in Tempe. The collection is one of the largest in the world! About 100 meteorites ...

The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967. Scientists have struggled to recreate lonsdaleite in the laboratory but now, a team of Chinese researchers ...

Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the history of the meteorites ...

To find answers, the researchers turned to iron meteorites ... particles coalesced. “We found conclusive evidence that first-generation planetesimals in the inner solar system were unexpectedly rich ...

A new study led by Arizona State ... by analyzing iron meteorites—remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest planetary building blocks— to uncover new insights. "We found conclusive ...