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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Join host Mat Kaplan as he proudly introduces the person who will take on the show he created 20 yea

The University of Arizona in Tucson hosts two of the most successful asteroid searches on our planet

Mat Kaplan once again hosted the live webcast from the annual NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts or N

What would nation-states do in response to a signal from an alien intelligence? Would they compete f

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made its last flight on Sept. 30, 2022.

They did it! The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft scored a direct hit on Dimorphos

We are less than a week from the DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as this epis

More than 100,000 came to the Kennedy Space Center hoping to see Artemis 1 head for the Moon on Augu

Come with us to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for our special coverage of the first attempt to launch

As we wait for the launch of Artemis 1, we explore the Artemis Accords: a shared set of principles f

Join us at the Jet Propulsion Lab for the celebration of the two Voyager spacecrafts’ 45-year journe

We now know the rough outline of how NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) expect to get the samp

Astronomer Jane Greaves and her worldwide team have had quite a ride. It has been two years since th

Scientists have used data collected by an exquisitely sensitive instrument on the European Space Age

As NASA’s deputy administrator, Lori Garver fought to cancel the Constellation program and shift NAS

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists Armin Kleinboehl and Marek Slipski lead a new project that is rec

She is only the tenth director of JPL, and the first woman to hold the position. It’s a homecoming f

Host Mat Kaplan leads with a special announcement. Then we spend a fascinating hour with the former

Have you seen them? Five spectacular images have given us a taste of what’s ahead from the James Web

No one deserves more credit for enabling the new era of commercial space development than former NAS