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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It’s the 25th anniversary of the Pathfinder Mars mission and Sojourner, the first rover on the Red P

We Earthlings are making progress toward defending our planet from near-Earth objects, which is reas

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 rocketed into orbit three years ago. Society CEO Bill Nye, chief

Lindy Elkins-Tanton’s wonderful new memoir is titled, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a

Join host Mat Kaplan in Washington D.C. for conversations with outstanding presenters at the first i

Caltech planetary scientist and Planetary Society president Bethany Ehlmann was a key player in the

Host Mat Kaplan has returned from the UK and the recording of The Moons Symphony by the London Symph

With Mat Kaplan in London for Planetary Radio Live, we bring back one of the most moving events in t

Our in-depth, fascinating conversation with Cornell University professor Britney Schmidt touches on

Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, has begun an exciting new phase of its mission. Project scientist

It's not just the ISS partnership — commercial satellites, international cooperation, and mana

Psyche is a 279 kilometer-wide (173 mile-wide) hunk of metal in space. Psyche is also a magnificent

The End of Astronauts?

2022/4/27

Do we need to send humans into space? Won't robots soon be smart enough and capable enough to do thi

Host Mat Kaplan joined the Los Angeles celebration of humanity becoming a spacefaring species. He ta

Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

2022/4/13

“Never panic early” is both Fred Haise’s motto and the title of his new memoir. Jo

The Biden administration is proposing $26 billion for NASA next year, with significant increases ben

Recommendations made in the 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey will be reve

He helped invent X-ray astronomy more than 50 years ago. Martin Weisskopf still leads the field as p

At 93, Margaret Kivelson is still at the center of space science and policy. In this charming conver

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