A planet of diamonds sounds like a fairy tale but 55 Cancri e is no fantasy. Located 40 lightyears from Earth, this super-Earth formed under such brutal heat and pressure that its carbon-rich interior ...
What types of exoplanets orbit pulsars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated an exoplanet with unique ...
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Why some planets rain diamonds

It sounds like something straight out of a big-budget sci-fi film, but the idea of diamonds falling from the sky […] ...