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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President Joe Biden's new budget proposal for NASA is very good, supporting nearly every major Plane

Mighty Jupiter Revealed

2021/6/2

Scott Bolton leads the Juno mission that has been orbiting and revealing Jupiter for five years. NAS

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will soon issue the Astro2020 Astronomy

The tiny Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has flown into our hearts. Project manager MiMi Aung and her team

The 2021 Planetary Defense Conference brought together the leading scientists, policymakers and othe

In a surprise move, NASA chose SpaceX's Starship as the sole winner of its 3 billion-dollar human lu

It is always such fun to welcome back Andy Weir. The author of The Martian and Artemis has just publ

There is no Nobel prize for astronomy, so the Kyoto Prize for Astronomy and Astrophysics may be the

We begin with a thrilling recap of the successful first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter

Physicist and space pioneer Gerard K. O’Neil gathered a community of followers as he led plann

Pilot Bob Crippen and Commander John Young became the first astronauts to fly a Space Shuttle into o

Bill Nelson, former Senator from Florida, congressional astronaut, and father of the Space Launch Sy

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) team has just announced more than 2,200 new exoplan

Deputy project scientists Katie Stack Morgan and Ken Williford are living on Mars time and living fo

Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda and his team learned a lot from Hayabusa1, Japan’s trou

Troy Hudson and a brilliant international team created a device that would hammer its way below the

The SpaceX of today reuses rockets and launches people into space. But 15 years ago, the future of t

Cleaning up water pollution, inventing inexpensive ventilators for hospitals, turning waste plastic

The Mars 2020 rover is on Mars. We have collected the most thrilling moments from the landing and th

The Planetary Society’s Planetfest ’21 celebrated Mars and the newest visitors to the Re