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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Georgetown University planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson has written a beautiful book that ch

Known as Astrokatie to her 370 thousand Twitter followers, astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack

Newly-published research led by Stephen Kane finds room for as many as 6 habitable zone planets arou

First there was ChemCam on Mars rover Curiosity. Now, SuperCam is on its way to the Red Planet aboar

How spacefaring nations prioritize funding can be just as important, if not more so, than the capabi

Astronaut and former SpaceX director of space operations Garrett Reisman returns to help us celebrat

An exclusive conversation with science lead Sarah Al Amiri and project director Omran Sharaf of the

The United Arab Emirates Hope spacecraft has begun its journey to Mars. We’ll join a virtual launch

Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 rover, leaves for the Red Planet in just days. Deputy project scientist Ke

It has been 5 years since the New Horizons probe revealed beautiful, surprising Pluto, and 18 months

Dr. Bhavya Lal joins the show to discuss the size of the space economy, where it's going, and how th

Mastcam-Z is the main camera system that will soon leave for Mars as part of the Perseverance rover.

Low Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, even Neptune and the edge of the solar system--China’s ambitious pl

The LightSail 2 team and 50,000 supporters around the world will celebrate the little spacecraft’s f

Staying Alive in Space

2020/6/10

Keeping humans alive and well in space is hard enough. How will this be accomplished on a 3-year jou

SpaceX's Crew Dragon safely carried 2 astronauts to the ISS, nearly a decade after NASA made a huge

This episode opens with a special message about The Planetary Society’s response to recent news, fol

Former astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld is often called the Hubble Repairma

Engineer and former astronaut Garrett Reisman spent four months on the International Space Station b

Jet Propulsion Lab astrobiologist Kevin Hand has just written Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in t