Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each wee

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Citizen scientists will soon have another opportunity to become part of the search for extraterrestr

Planetary scientist Bethany Ehlmann has co-authored a paper presenting evidence that liquid surface

It's the 50th anniversary of Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to the outer planets. Pioneers 10 and

Michelle Kunimoto was one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 in science. Now she leads the most

Astrobiologist, planetary scientist, author and science communicator David Grinspoon has just been n

The Planetary Society has awarded another eight Gene Shoemaker near-Earth object grants to outstandi

Astrophysicists Sam Grunblatt and Johanna Vos are colleagues at the American Museum of Natural Histo

Robert Smith shares the story of how the astronomical community decided upon the JWST as the follow-

The JWST’s instruments have been turned on. Now begins the months-long preparation for observa

Worlds of snow and ice

2022/1/26

From Venus to Pluto, our solar system contains a myriad of planets, moons and other bodies whose sur

We are approaching the 10th anniversary of Curiosity’s arrival in the Red Planet’s Gale

The Parker Solar Probe dipped within the corona on its eighth encounter with our star. It found phen

New rockets, new legislation, and a new direction for planetary exploration are just some of the maj

NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972. We vis

Mat Kaplan and six Planetary Society colleagues review a year full of accomplishments, firsts and ex

Space historian William Sheehan and planetary scientist Jim Bell have written a fascinating history

The James Webb Space Telescope will begin its mission of discovery as soon as Dec. 24. René D

The plot of the great new movie “Don’t Look Up” is driven by a giant comet speedin

The search for biosignatures on hundreds of exoplanets is the top goal for U.S. astronomers. That's

Is it life? NASA chief scientist Jim Green and Mary Voytek, leader of the agency’s astrobiolog