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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

By The Planetary SocietyScience, TechnologyEnglish

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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit...

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Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for an episode guide and much more.

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  1. How Perseverance drove itself into the record books

    1 h 0 min

  2. Meet the Winners of The Planetary Society’s 2026 STEP Grants

    1 h 6 min

  3. Book Club Edition: Dinner With an Astronaut by Leroy Chiao

    1 h 14 min

  4. From the Mojave to Phobos: PlanetVac rides with MMX

    1 h 4 min

  5. Space Policy Edition: What does “science as a service” really mean?

    1 h 17 min

  6. 2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 2 — Solar sails and breathing beyond Earth

    1 h 0 min

  7. 2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 1 — Nuclear sensors and cave explorers

    1 h 1 min

  8. Hayabusa2 flies by asteroid Torifune

    1 h 0 min

  9. Book Club Edition: Alien Oceans by Kevin Hand

    1 h 7 min

  10. Star Trek at 60: What Vulcans and Klingons can teach us about being human (Part 2)

    1 h 7 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. Star Trek at 60: What do we value the most? (Part 1)

    59 min

  2. Space Policy Edition: The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald

    1 h 7 min

  3. World Space Week and farewell to Swift

    1 h 4 min

  4. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch

    56 min

  5. Book Club Edition: Becoming Martian by Scott Solomon

    1 h 17 min

  6. The SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon

    1 h 3 min

  7. Total solar eclipse 2026: Astrophotography and birdsong

    57 min

  8. Space Policy Edition: “Science: A New Golden Age” - Reimagining U.S. science policy

    1 h 10 min

  9. LHS 1140b: The first atmosphere detected on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet

    57 min

  10. TERP RAPTOR: A student-built mission to asteroid Apophis

    1 h 1 min

  11. Hot Jupiters: The ‘Roasted Planet’ and the wrong-way hotspot

    1 h 2 min

  12. Book Club Edition: “The Edge of Space-Time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

    59 min

  13. Sian Proctor and John Read on teaching babies to love the Cosmos

    57 min

  14. Small Town Universe: Inside Green Bank's Radio Quiet Zone

    55 min

  15. Space Policy Edition: What's going on with commercial space stations?

    57 min

  16. Rosalind Franklin and the search for life on Mars

    57 min

  17. Tianwen-2: China closes in on Kamoʻoalewa

    59 min

  18. Book Club Edition: “To Be Taught, If Fortunate” with Becky Chambers

    1 h 6 min

  19. Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly

    59 min

  20. U.S. space science in flux: Grant rules, rockets, and reorganization

    56 min

  21. Space Policy Edition: A proposal to stifle American science

    52 min

  22. Spacewoman with Eileen Collins

    55 min

  23. Los Angeles Astronomical Society celebrates 100 years of looking up

    1 h 2 min

  24. Twenty organic molecules found in an ancient Martian rock

    55 min

  25. Book Club Edition: Diane Ackerman and “The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral”

    51 min

  26. Igniting Discovery: A showcase of NASA-funded research

    57 min

  27. Day of Action 2026: Rejoining the fight to save NASA science

    59 min

  28. Space Policy Edition: Why humans matter — The philosophy of Artemis II

    1 h 18 min

  29. Yuri's Night 2026: Celebrating 65 years of human spaceflight

    59 min

  30. Project Hail Mary hits the big screen

    1 h 1 min

  31. Book Club Edition: Founder and CEO Peter Beck on The Launch of Rocket Lab

    57 min

  32. Triumph and turmoil: Artemis II and the renewed fight to save NASA science

    59 min

  33. Artemis II launches to the Moon

    57 min

  34. Space Policy Edition: Return to Launch — Cape Canaveral's unlikely history

    1 h 13 min

  35. Artemis II’s AVATAR and a sungrazing comet

    1 h 0 min

  36. The astronaut health experiments of Artemis II

    1 h 3 min

  37. Book Club Edition: The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life

    1 h 17 min

  38. The 18th European Space Conference: Dreaming of European boots on the Moon

    56 min

  39. Starman: Looking back on a life exploring the Solar System

    1 h 1 min

  40. Space Policy Edition: Is there really a space race between the US and China?

    1 h 8 min

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