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Leah Crane is the physics and space reporter at 91av

Leah Crane

Physics and space reporter

Bio

Leah Crane is a Senior Reporter at 91av, covering topics ranging from private space flight and cosmology to quantum mechanics. She is based in Chicago. Before joining 91av in 2016, her work was published at SpaceNews, Eos, Smithsonian and Symmetry Magazine. She writes 91av's space newsletter, Launchpad.

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Space

Odd black holes smaller than protons may have once littered the cosmos

Space

What would a wormhole look like if we ever found one?

Deep space beauty, planets, stars and galaxies in endless universe. Elements of this image furnished by NASA; Shutterstock ID 632032406; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Space

How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?

Space

Starliner and Starship launches propel space industry into a new era

Space

Wormholes could blast out blazing hot plasma at incredible speeds

2X519P5 Cape Canaveral, United States of America. 05 May, 2024. The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on top of the ULA Atlas V rocket with crew gantry in position on Space Launch Complex-41 at the Kennedy Space Center, May 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Starliner is expected to launch May 6th on the first manned Crew Flight Test carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station. Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA Photo/Alamy Live News

Space

Starliner launch: When is Boeing testing its crewed space capsule?

Mars

Space

What would happen if we pulled out Mars’s iron core with a magnet?

Physics

Quantum ‘arrow of time’ suggests early universe had no entanglement

Primordial black holes crossing stars, orbit figures.

Space

Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns

Messier 78

Space

Amazing new images of galaxies and nebulae caught by Euclid telescope

This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The complex overlay of lines can teach scientists about the ways the sun's magnetism changes in response to the constant movement on and inside the sun. CREDIT NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07315-1

Space

Source of the sun’s magnetic field may hide right under its surface

Black hole in deep space

Space

Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes