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Electron microscope image of hexagonal diamond in a meteorite

Strange hexagonal diamonds found in meteorite from another planet

12 September 2022

Diamonds found in four meteorites in north-west Africa probably came from an ancient dwarf planet, and they are expected to be harder than Earth diamonds
There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

2 December 2020

Bizarre volcanoes that ooze ice magma or explode like geysers reveal the geological rumblings beneath other worlds. Some might even provide the spark for alien life 

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