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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Ariel Ekblaw and her Space Exploration Initiative colleagues believe we are at the cusp of interplan

DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot and the rest of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test team will s

Badri Younes says that a spacecraft that can’t communicate or find its way is worthless. He le

The first in-space test of asteroid deflection technology, DART, launches this month. Lindley Johnso

The chair of the United Arab Emirates space agency returns with news of an ambitious mission to expl

Host Mat Kaplan has wanted to reshare his first conversation with the great Sally Ride for years. Sa

Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan interviewed NIAC Fellows about their revolutionary projects as part

A delightful, exclusive conversation with principal investigator Hal Levison, deputy principal inves

It started with a question from a listener. The answer comes from Dawn mission chief engineer and mi

A polarized U.S. Congress is juggling nearly half a dozen pieces of major legislation, several of wh

Mars all-stars gathered online for September’s annual Humans to Mars summit produced by Explor

Clare Lewins has created a film that takes us inside the lives of people who have lived and worked o

Morgan Cable of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is lead author of a paper that makes a compel

NASA hopes to radically reduce the price tag for exploring Mars with a mission called ESCAPADE. Prin

Communication is culture, says Dr. Linda Billings, an expert in social science and space outreach. S

It was one of the most exciting planetary science announcements in 2018: Radar from an orbiting spac

Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a vast water ocean under a protective layer of ice. The Europa Cli

Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker is back to describe how data from the Saturn mission that en

NASA’s Perseverance is driving farther and faster than any previous Mars rover, thanks to its

Can nuclear propulsion fundamentally transform our ability to send humans to Mars? Bhavya Lal, a pol