The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released an environmental impact study for continued operations of the power plant.

The Canyon Diablo meteorite is also referred to as the Barringer meteorite after the Philadelphia lawyer and mining engineer Daniel Moreau Barringer. Barringer firmly believed the crater was the ...

Gilbert’s odyssey began when he heard a lecture in Washington, D.C. about meteorites near Canyon Diablo and the mysterious crater-like feature called Coon Mountain.

The American landscape holds many hidden geological treasures, but few are as captivating as the Willamette Meteorite – the largest meteorite ever found in the United States and among the most ...

However, there’s another allotrope—first identified in 1967 when scientists examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona—known today as lonsdaleite.

It was first identified in 1967 from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, in Arizona, USA, regarded as one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on Earth. It was named after crystallographer Professor Dame ...

We know about the existence of lonsdaleite thanks to a meteorite impact that formed it. In 1891, examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona, scientists reported finding "hard particles ...

Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first discovered in 1967 in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure.

The earliest known discovery of the material occurred during studies of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in 1967. An allotrope of carbon (which causes its hexagonal shape), lonsdaleite is sometimes ...

The ‘super diamond’ will be no more expensive than natural ones sold at jewelry stores, experts say (Credits: Getty) Chinese scientists have created a ‘super diamond’ 40% harder and far ...

Previously, the hardest diamonds were found only in impact craters, making them very rare and small. The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967.