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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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

It will be the first flying machine on another world. Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung shar

Join us as the little cubesat successfully unfurls its solar sail. You’ll hear from members of the L

Poppy Northcutt was a pioneer—the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control. The

NASA has given the go-ahead for Dragonfly, a flying rotorcraft that will explore Saturn’s mysterious

Half a century has passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin imprinted humanity's first footsteps

LightSail Takes Flight!

2019/7/3

A giant SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off in the early hours of June 25th. One week later, the LightSai

It has been many months since the great Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere and fier

The day is almost here. With the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, The Planetary Society will begin i

Even though his own work led to it, Albert Einstein never cared for quantum mechanics concepts like