"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Scientists have recreated conditions on Neptune and Uranus in a lab at Stanford’s SLAC National ...

Diamonds may rain down deep within Neptune and Uranus. The physics of these “ice giants” differ greatly from that of Earth. These planets have a solid core surrounded by icy oceans made up of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

For some time, researchers have hypothesized that deep inside both Neptune and Uranus, it may be raining diamonds. They have now found evidence showing how it may happen. In the research, an ...

The rings of Uranus, seen by Voyager 2 (CREDIT: NASA) We have found stars and planets that are composed with large quantities of diamond, but could something similar be found a little bit closer to ...

Following up on a long-held theory that intense pressure within the ice giants of our solar system could lead to "diamond rain," researchers were able to simulate the conditions they believe exist ...

Move over Jupiter and Saturn, a crap load of diamonds could be found in two of the most mysterious places in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. Researchers using the Linac Coherent Light Source at ...