The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

The Natural History Museum explains: “Sometimes the olivine does not occur as a single crystal ... composition and structure ...

Crystallography-informed AI achieves high performance in predicting novel crystal structures by Research Organization of Information and Systems ...

The components of the water are locked into crystal structures. Many researchers believe these ancient rocks played a crucial role in delivering water to early Earth.

The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks that are strung through with ...

Space Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way to ...

Ancient Mars Had Hot Springs Suited To Life, Meteorite Crystal Shows This single tiny crystal may have told us more about the red planet’s first few hundred million years than every other source ...

Collectibles A 275-Pound Crystal-Filled Meteorite and Other Rare Natural Artifacts Head to Auction The themed sale at Heritage Auctions speaks to a growing collecting appetite for ancient treasures.

This multi-ring structure formed by the impact scar illustrates the effect of shock metamorphism of rocks, transformation of crystal structures and shatter cones of the immense force created by the ...

The crystal patterns of these minerals, known as Widmanstätten patterns, reveal the meteorite’s initial composition and the rate that the original asteroid’s core cooled.