Earth and Orbit

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 13, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're watching Earth's orbit fill up, and we're starting to see a pattern in how we're going to have to live with that.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 12, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're looking at a cluster of storms spinning up across the western Pacific, and what they have in common is less about where they are right now and more about how hard they are to pin down before they move.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 11, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Space is becoming less dependent on any one nation's ability to reach it.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 10, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. Three tropical cyclones are spinning up across the western Pacific right now, stacked almost on top of each other in time and space.

Welcome to today's Earth and Orbit for August 9, 2026 -- where we cover some of the stories happening in space and here on Earth. We're watching three separate storms developing across the western Pacific right now, and the naming gets confusing because two of them overlap in space-but not in time, and not in what they actually are.