Earth and Orbit

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 4, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three earthquakes shook different parts of the world yesterday, and they illustrate something worth thinking about: how much we can actually see depends entirely on what we've built to look.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 3, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three tropical systems are already in motion across the Pacific right now, and they're operating in a specific constraint that yesterday's briefing touched on and today bears out more sharply.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 2, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three tropical systems are moving across the Pacific right now, and they're all active at once.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for September 1, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three separate tropical systems are moving across the Pacific right now, and a wildfire in Oregon's Morrow County is burning east of the Pacific Northwest.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 31, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of constraint running through things right now - not the dramatic kind where something finally breaks through, but the slower version where multiple systems all hit their limits at the same time, and you start to see what actually stops progre

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 30, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of persistence happening right now - not the dramatic kind where something finally breaks through, but the slower version where the same problem keeps showing up in different places, and you start to see what it's actually about.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 29, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of waiting happening in space exploration right now - the kind where the next step forward depends on proving something that sounds simple until you actually have to do it.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 28, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three tropical systems are holding their position across the Pacific, and the pattern they're making is starting to matter more than the storms themselves.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 27, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three tropical systems are moving across the Pacific right now at distances that keep them from interfering with each other, and that spacing itself is becoming the story.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 26, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of waiting happening right now across the ocean systems, and it's worth paying attention to because the pattern is unusual enough that it tells you something about what's changing in how storms move and where they form.