Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each wee

Episodes

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Celebrating Kepler

2018/10/31

The Kepler mission has ended.  Listen to highlights of the October 30th media briefing that included

LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the

Our most frequent guest returns with exciting, just-published research enabled by the 20-year missio

Happy Astronomy Day, October 13, 2018!  We salute humankind’s long history of stargazing by checking

Happy 60th, NASA. In celebration of the space agency’s birthday, we do the audio equivalent of pulli

The Dean of space policy, John Logsdon, returns with stories and a new book of original documents th

A mostly SpaceX episode as the ambitious company provides updated details regarding its huge new roc

Elsa Montagnon is Spacecraft Operations Manager for the European/Japanese mission leaving for our so

Opportunity, Phone Home!

2018/9/12

The dust is settling on the Red Planet.  Is the remaining Mars Exploration Rover about to rise and s

We talk with planetary scientist and Lunar and Planetary Institute Director Louise Prockter, who co-

Mat Kaplan’s Huntsville, Alabama trip wraps up with a tour of the historic and history-making Marsha

Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recor

Pluto passed in front of a star on the evening of August 14. Mat Kaplan joined pro and amateur astro

We have so much to learn about Venus, says JPL scientist Sue Smrekar.  What we learn will help us un

It has been 20 years since we learned the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to the myste

The Senate just held a hearing on NASA's efforts to send humans to...Mars? A week later, the same co

Our world was rocked by last week’s announcement of good radar evidence for a liquid water “lake” un

Japan’s Hayabusa2 is just 6 kilometers from asteroid Ryugu as it prepares to snatch samples of the s

One of the Planetary Society’s 2018 Shoemaker Near-Earth Object grants has gone to astronomers searc

Sextants have helped sailors find their way across oceans for centuries. Now one is onboard the Inte