Diamonds

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists who regard it as a haunted town due to its history and spooky appearance. Its history started in 1908, when...

The small town of Nordlingen in Germany is perhaps one of the most visited spots on earth by astronomists, as it is built on an asteroid crater and its buildings are filled with diamonds created by the asteroid impact. A...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, a dwarf planet and a huge asteroid may have collided, launching strange hexagonal diamonds into space. According to a recent study, lonsdaleite, a rare kind of meteorite that may have originated from the mantle of...