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 Mars Exploration Rover mission was declared complete on February 13, 2019.  On the very next day

Radio telescopes are delivering stunning images that, in some cases, current optical telescopes can’

Why did the dinosaurs die? Because they didn’t have a space program! The upcoming DART mission will

China's space program notched an impressive "first" last month when its Chang'e 4 spacecraft landed

Astrobiology is the discipline that explores the origin of life in the universe, and whether life ex

Spacecraft OSIRIS REx is now orbiting a 260-meter asteroid named Bennu.  Principal investigator Dant

In a government shutdown seemingly without end, we bring you two stories from individuals directly i

Imagine soaring over what may be the solar system’s most Earth-like world, if you ignore the chill.

Join us at the Applied Physics Lab in Maryland for the New Horizons encounter with the most distant

Why do so many spacecraft that are headed across our solar system turn their instruments back to Ear

The New Horizons spacecraft will reach faraway Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 in the first minutes of

This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path

He led NASA for eight years, but not till he had flown on four Space Shuttle missions and enjoyed a

Canada was the third country in history to launch a satellite into space, but now lags in its space

The InSight lander has only just arrived on Mars. Now, OSIRIS REx has reached asteroid Bennu after t

Join 1,000 anxious yet thrilled space fans at Caltech for our live InSight landing party.  You’ll me

NASA announced on November 19th that the multi-billion dollar 2020 Mars rover will land in Jezero cr

The counting continues as we publish this month’s special episode, with a handful of seats in the US

You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’v

They may be the most important questions in all of science: Where do we come from?  Are we alone? Re