Space and cosmos

Trump pledges ‘golden age’ of space travel

NASA is already pushing to create a lunar surface base and plans to use robotic vehicles to build infrastructure that future human explorers to the Moon could eventually make use of.

Milky Way’s fastest star discovered spinning around black hole

Several stars are seen orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

China’s Zhuque-3 rocket comes home for first time, closing in on SpaceX

A Zhuque-3 rocket lifts off from Jiuquan, one of China’s main launch centres.

The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago

The collision about 11.8 billion years ago, when a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with the Milky Way and merged with it, appears in an artist’s concept released on Aug 17.

BigBang named first ambassadors for South Korea’s space agency

K-pop outfit BigBang posing with their certificate of appointment that designates them as the inaugural honorary ambassadors for the Korea AeroSpace Administration.

First total solar eclipse in Europe in decades turns day to night

A total solar eclipse seen from Castrillo de la Reina, Spain, on Aug 12.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Aug 13, 2026

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (right) – the youngest person to be appointed to the role – will leave her role to spend more time with her family.

Spain darkens as solar eclipse races south from Arctic

New space object ‘black hole star’ discovered by astronomers

Solar eclipse sparks scramble for protective glasses across Europe

A lucky buyer manages to snag a pair of eclipse-viewing glasses at a store at Madrid’s planetarium.

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