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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The outspoken planetary scientist who led the Cassini imaging team finally sits down with Mat Kaplan

Astrophysicist Javier Peralta takes us deep into the thick, fast-moving clouds of the world that is

How can a simple report—just words on a page—lead to creation of a spacecraft? We explore how a 2019

Bill Nye says of Sasha Sagan’s new book, “Sagan finds the meaning of life everywhere—with her family

How Long Was Mars Wet?

2019/10/23

Planetary scientist Briony Horgan and her team want to know how long liquid water flowed on the surf

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program gathers its “fellows” each year to share what they’ve

October 1st kicked off federal fiscal year 2020—a day that should also have kicked off a new budget

Astronomer and astrophysicist Michel Mayor has just been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics. L

How to Defend Your Planet

2019/10/2

Planetary scientist Vishnu Reddy studies space objects ranging from satellite debris to planet-killi

Ad Astra: The Movie!

2019/9/25

Brad Pitt sets out across the solar system to save Earth in the new space epic. Host Mat Kaplan enjo

The biannual Starship Congress attracts starry-eyed believers in humankind’s destiny among the stars

This US research center has been part of more than 200 space missions, but it’s not a NASA facility!

As NASA struggles to return humans to the Moon by 2024, it's worth asking: why did it stop in the fi

First we return to JPL for an update on the Mars Helicopter that has just been attached to the belly

Astrobotic is one of several companies that are building small, robotic landers to take commercial p

Rick Davis is the perfect person to co-lead NASA’s Mars Human Landing Sites Study. No one is more de

Host Mat Kaplan in a long and fascinating conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesui

Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding pu

Join Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye and host Mat Kaplan as they visit Oklahoma City’s outstanding pu

Did the public support Project Apollo? Dr. Emily Margolis joins the show to explore the domestic pol