Earth and Orbit

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 5, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Start with the heat shield story, because it's the clearest version of that idea.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 4, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today's got one station getting fuller and one space agency quietly working out how to build a second one, plus a theoretical world that doesn't need the kind of single, well-behaved sun we usually assume life requires.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 3, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today's thread is about shelter - where it's being sought, where it isn't available at all, and where none was ever an option to begin with.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 2, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today the throughline is about what a surface hides versus what's actually underneath it - a rock that looks like one object but isn't, a cloud bank that looks opaque but isn't, a planet that looks still but isn't.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for October 1, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today the thread running through the science is revision - things we thought we had measured correctly turning out to be a little different once better instruments or longer study got a look at them.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 29, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today isn't built around one big event so much as a handful of things getting quietly reclassified - a black hole that might build galaxies instead of just gutting them, an AI system nobody's fully sure they trust yet, a lens in the sky turning faint smudges into wh

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 28, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today's thread is energy, in every form we've got a story about - the wind driving four different storms at four different strengths, the thrust waiting to lift a brand new rocket off the pad, the steady trickle of nuclear power that could outlast two weeks of lunar

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 27, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today is mostly about things that are bigger, older, or stranger than they first appear once someone actually goes looking closer.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 26, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Today's got two very different kinds of movement in it - things stuck waiting on somebody's signature, and things going ahead whether anyone signs anything or not.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 25, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. {"script":"Today's got an odd little thread running through it: a lot of watching, done by very different kinds of eyes.