Earth and Orbit

Earth and Orbit

By Paul LukerScienceAstronomy
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Earth and Orbit episodes

  • Earth and Orbit -- August 25, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 25, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. There's a particular kind of constraint happening at different scales today-the physical limits we're running into as we try to understand what's actually out there, and what we're building to survive coming back down.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 22, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 22, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck about 31 kilometers northwest of Aniso, Peru, yesterday, and the U.S.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 21, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 21, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck about 31 kilometers northwest of Aniso, Peru, yesterday.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 20, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 20, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're in eclipse season, and there's one coming in about a week that's rare enough to stop for.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 19, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 19, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're getting better at reading planets we can't actually see-and what we're finding is pushing the edges of what we thought was possible.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 18, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 18, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're watching Earth from space with increasing sophistication, and what satellites see is becoming harder to ignore.
    7 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 17, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 17, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. What we're tracking today is the gap between what we're building and what we're actually able to see.
    6 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 16, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 16, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're tracking three tropical systems in the Pacific right now, each at a different distance from land and moving at a different pace.
    6 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 15, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 15, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Indonesia took a significant shock overnight-magnitude 7.7, about 68 kilometers north-northwest of Ende.
    4 min
  • Earth and Orbit -- August 14, 2026
    Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 14, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We've got three tropical storms threading across the Pacific right now, and they're the slower kind of problem - none of them is an immediate threat to land, but they're worth watching because they're still there.
    4 min

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Every morning, a short and honest look at what happened in space and on this planet - the launches, the discoveries, the storms and the science. Written and narrated automatically, five to seven…