Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 6, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, April 5 After rounding the Sun in January, Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś) is now headed back out to the depths of the solar system. This may be your last chance to see it, too, especially as it’s fading fast following a possible disruption of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 6, 2026 On its mission around the moon and back to Earth, the crew of Orion spacecraft on Flight Day 4 became the first astronauts in more than 50 years to report flying in deep space. Artemis II was set to enter the moon’s gravitational influence on Easter Sunday. NASA astronaut […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 1, 2026 Four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening on NASA’s long-awaited monumental 10-day mission to circumnavigate the moon. The rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission does not include a lunar landing but is intended […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 30, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 29 The Moon passes 0.3° north of Leo’s alpha star, Regulus, at 4 P.M. EDT. By the time darkness falls, our satellite stands about 3.5° east of this bright star. Shining at magnitude 1.4, Regulus sits nearly on the ecliptic — the imaginary […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 26, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher At the conclusion of his opening for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) epic March 24 morning brief on its Moon program simply titled “Ignition,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated: “This is the moment where we should all start believing again. When ideas become […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 22, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 22 Neptune reaches conjunction with the Sun at 7 A.M. EDT; it will reappear in mid-April in the morning sky. The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 7:40 A.M. EDT, when it will be 227,954 miles (366,856 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 19, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rolls out five-year plans that present national objectives, sometimes vague and much of it classified; The latest is CCP’s 15th Five Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) that has emerged from the annual “Two Sessions” (National People’s Political Consultative Conference and National […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 15, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 15 The distant ice giant Uranus is located in Taurus right now, not far from the famous (and easy-to-find) Pleiades star cluster, cataloged as M45. Tonight, the planet also sits a short distance due south of a 6th-magnitude field star of roughly the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 15, 2010, President Barak Obama traveled to Kennedy Space Center to announce his cancellation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Constellation Moon program that was started in January 2004 by his predecessor, George W. Bush. In his speech Obama stated: “We’re […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 8, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Saturday, March 7 Mercury reaches inferior conjunction with the Sun at 6 A.M. EST, rendering the small planet invisible for now. It will reappear in the morning sky later this month. Today, however, our focus is on the evening sky as Venus and Saturn sit […]
