Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the history of the meteorites ...

Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth ... As you might expect, first finding lonsdaleite on a meteor means this mineral isn’t naturally occurring on Earth. That’s because it requires ...

Two months after Neil Armstrong’s 1969 Moon landing, a meteor burst into the atmosphere ... These grains, including micro-diamonds and silicon carbide, date back over 4.6 billion years ...