Earth and Orbit

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 15, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Two Pacific storms are running side by side off Mexico, and two older storm reports have gone quiet.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 14, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today is about the difference between how a thing first looks and what it turns out to be, and how much depends on where you happen to be standing when you look.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 13, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today is a day about who gets to look after the places where things happen, and what it takes to keep a place running: orbit's next tenants, a launch pad being doubled, and a ridge in the middle of the ocean that keeps building itself without a landlord.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 12, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Some things get rehearsed before they happen, and some just happen.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 11, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three storms are spinning in the Pacific with real strength behind them, and a handful of space stories today are about the same trick: learning something by catching what's left behind, or what's hard to see directly.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 10, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Overnight, the ground under one part of Panama would not settle, and the rest of today's stories are about things that stay put, or finally get back to ground that does.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 9, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Plans bend, and a few of the stories coming in right now are about exactly how they bend: a crew that came home on a different timetable than first imagined, a launch that stopped short, a rocket that has taken its time, and a discovery that showed up years before anyo

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 8, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today's sky stories keep circling back to the same practical question: what does it actually take to see something clearly, whether that something is ninety million miles away or embedded in the solar wind itself.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 7, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. What ties today's sky stories together is that the most violent things out there turn out to be the ones doing the building.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 6, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. What's different about today isn't any one event, it's how unevenly certain we get to be about each of them.