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Leah Crane is the physics and space reporter at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ

Leah Crane

Physics and space reporter

Bio

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

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Space

Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet and heating it up

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GRB 221009A surrounded by dust rings

Space

The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers

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Trappist-1 is a red-dwarf star, the most common variety, located some 40 light-years away in Aquarius. In 2015, astronomers discovered that Trappist-1 was host to three earth-sized planets. Then it came under the spotlight again in 2017 when NASA scientists found an additional four planets, taking the total up to seven. This is the most terrestrial planets that have ever been found to orbit a single star, including our own Solar System. Trappist-1 is only fractionally larger than Jupiter in diameter. This image shows the star and six of the planets as they would appear from the vantage point of the fifth outermost planet, Trappist-1f. All of the planets and the Sun are to scale. One of the worlds is seen transiting in front of the star.

Space

JWST finds the planet TRAPPIST-1b may not have an atmosphere

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The ATLAS detector at the LHC

Physics

CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

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Europa, one of Jupiter's moons and Enceladus, one of Saturn's

Space

Fissures on ocean moons may be too rare to provide conditions for life

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A render of a quantum computer

Physics

Ultra-thin superconducting ink could be used in quantum computers

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Grains from Ryugu

Space

Samples from asteroid Ryugu contain one of the building blocks of RNA

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Titan and Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Space

Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

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The evidence was found in a group of sedimentary and volcanic rocks in western Australia

Earth

Earliest evidence of a meteorite hitting Earth found in Australia

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The lonely galaxy containing a supermassive black hole, two jets, and an X-ray hotspot, all surrounded by hot gas

Space

Galaxy may have eaten all its neighbours and now it's all alone

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M93A81 Golden colored Asian Rice plants (Oryza sativa) growing in their natural condition with drooping rice grains and a mountain background in rural Japan

Life

Gene-edited rice may be able to grow on Mars

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JWST took a stunning picture of a star that’s about to go supernova

Space

JWST took a stunning picture of a star that’s about to go supernova

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