Only known to exist in Brazil and the Central African Republic, “carbonado” black diamonds date from around 2.6 to 3.8 billion years ago and are an extremely rare natural occurrence.

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

Fortunately, it turned out to be a rare meteorite, which is more valuable than gold! Henry said it weighed a staggering 17 kg or 37.5 lbs. He used a diamond saw to remove a small slice ...

The meteorite is made up of six fragments, with the largest piece weighing about 3kg A meteorite that is one of the biggest pieces of the Moon ever put up for sale is being auctioned online by a ...

Others maintain that carbon atoms (or, in a minority opinion, grains of meteoritic black graphite) within the hurtling meteorite itself transformed instantly into diamond during the extraordinary ...