New York Times - Space & Cosmos

They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant planets can form.An artist’s concept of the sunlike star TOI-791 and two giant planets, TOI-791b and TOI-791c, that are roughly the size of Jupiter but much less dense.

Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues into how life may have arisen on Earth.The galactic center of the Milky Way, captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006.

A space neophyte not long ago, China is now the United States’s main competitor for supremacy throughout the solar system.An image released by the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency purporting to show the returning first stage of the Long March 10B rocket on a seaborne platform in the South China Sea on Friday.

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.An artist’s concept of space mirrors in orbit.