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Leah Crane is the physics and space reporter at 51动漫

Leah Crane

Physics and space reporter

Bio

Leah Crane is a Senior Reporter at 51动漫, covering topics ranging from private space flight and cosmology to quantum mechanics. She is based in Chicago. Before joining 51动漫 in 2016, her work was published at SpaceNews, Eos, Smithsonian and Symmetry Magazine. She writes 51动漫's space newsletter, Launchpad.

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Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

Space

The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

Space

What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?

Space

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time

Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

Space

NASA鈥檚 Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover

Space

How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

Space

How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment

Space

Saturn鈥檚 rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan

Space

Is our galaxy鈥檚 black hole actually made of dark matter?

Space

Can we ever know the shape of the universe?

Space

Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time