Rain is usually made of water, but elsewhere in the Solar System the weather can be unimaginably different. Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory believe that on two giant planets, ...

Alien weather can get intense. On Neptune and Uranus, for example, the skies rain literal diamonds. Gravitational forces on these ice giants can become so strong, they pressurize carbon into solid ...

A new study has found that "diamond rain," a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier experiment, researchers ...

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Mungo Frost from the SLAC research center in California has gained new insights into the formation of diamond rain on icy planets such as Neptune and ...

What if rain didn’t fall as water, but as something solid — something far more valuable? It sounds unreal, but scientists believe that on planets like Neptune and Uranus, rain doesn’t fall the way it ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers led by Mungo Frost from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California and including DESY scientists used the European X-ray free-electron ...

On Jupiter and Saturn, half-inch diamonds fall from the atmosphere like rain. No, this writer isn't enjoying a particularly opulent LSD trip: New research by a NASA scientist says that up to 1,000 ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we tackle the debate surrounding whether or not it rains diamonds on Saturn. Then we talk about how UV degradation can break down some of the harmful residual ...

(Nanowerk News) A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously thought. In an earlier experiment ...