It's an open-pit mine, formed around a kimberlite pipe, a rare type of volcanic rock formation that can contain high ...

Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time ...

This type of birthday feels especially significant and rare ... the gold theme for your golden birthday, rocking the silver for your platinum birthday, or letting it all sparkle with diamonds ...

Until now, the hardest diamonds have been found in asteroid and meteoroid impact craters, meaning they are rare and often very small. Most natural and synthetic diamonds have a cubic structure ...

In 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole unearthed a heavy rock that he ... had found was not a gold nugget but a rare meteorite.