The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Interstellar dust may be not just cosmic "debris", but a key carrier of amino acids, the building blocks of life. A study by ...

Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...

The discovery of two diamonds originating from the depths of the Earth's mantle reveals a chemical coexistence that scientists had until now deemed unimaginable. These precious stones, formed ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

Microdiamonds have been discovered in two areas of a well, confirming the existence of an extensive kimberlite system of ...

There has been much debate among scientists about whether an area deep within the Earth is dry as a rock or sloshing with ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...