Featuring earth’s largest collection of Mars meteorites, along with a third of all moon rocks extant on our planet, the newly expanded Maine Mineral & Gem Museum (MMGM) in Bethel has been wowing ...

The scientists theorized that the meteorite's diamonds ... which are single crystals, black diamond consists of aggregations of individual crystals, which lend the gem its dark color.

Last week at Sotheby’s Dubai, a 555.55 carat black diamond called “The Enigma ... outer space,” said Tim McCoy, curator of the meteorite collection at the Smithsonian National Museum ...