Earth and Orbit

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 14, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of longevity at work in today's material - not the dramatic kind where a spacecraft keeps going against the odds, but the kind where infrastructure builds itself so well that it never quite needs replacing, and the missions that depend on i

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 13, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a strange symmetry in today's material between what we've already seen and what we're only now learning we saw.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 12, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a split in today's material between things that broke in the past and things that are still breaking now - some of it ancient history in space terms, some of it happening while we're talking.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 11, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We've got a day that splits between Earth moving and space waiting - two very different kinds of momentum happening at scales that don't usually get compared side by side.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 10, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We've got a day where the infrastructure we build to protect things and the infrastructure we build to understand them are finally working in opposite directions - and it takes watching across completely different scales to see why that matters.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 9, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Space exploration and Earth observation are both revealing something about the infrastructure we build to notice things - and about the gaps between noticing and understanding.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 8, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're looking at a day where space infrastructure and Earth observation are both revealing something about detection itself - about what we see when we're actually watching, and what we miss when we're not.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 7, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. You're looking at a Wednesday where everything's in motion at once, but the motion isn't random - it's constrained by the same invisible ceiling in two completely different places.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 6, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three storms are moving across the Pacific right now, and none of them are waiting for each other.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 5, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. BepiColombo is eight years into its cruise and entering the most dangerous part of its journey - the final approach to Mercury.