Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary SocietyPlanetary 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 ... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 1371 | Founded | 21 years ago |
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Ninety years ago this Halloween, a group of Caltech graduate students hauled a small rocket motor into the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena and tried to fire it up. It didn’t go as planned, but that moment became the unofficial birthday of NASA’s Jet Propul... more
On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble spotted a variable star in Andromeda from Mt. Wilson Observatory above Pasadena, California, proving that our galaxy is just one of countless others in the Universe. Now, California Rep. Judy Chu, co-chair o... more
NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven farther than any other vehicle on another world. On Oct. 11, 2026, its odometer reached 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles), passing the record Opportunity spent about 15 years setting. Perseverance did it in about fiv... more
Every two years, The Planetary Society funds research through our STEP Grants (Science and Technology Empowered by the Public). This year, all three winning projects focus on small bodies in our Solar System, like asteroids and trans-Neptunian object... more
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New Zealand20 days ago Best space science and space policy podcast. And a great organization to support.
Podcast Addict523 days agoCrotach- Simply spectacular journalism
Planetary Radio is fascinating, informative, and engaging science journalism at its best. Sarah Al-Ahmed, like her predecessor, delivers in equal parts, enthusiasm, curiosity, and information. Deep gratitude for this contribution to scientific journalism. Keep crushing it, Sarah.
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United States2 months ago - Ad Astra for Real
Planetary Radio is the most hopeful, and the most humane, place on the internet. Every episode gives us a chance to feel connected, included, and welcomed, whoever we may be or wherever we may be coming from. Every episode gives us a chance to experience awe. This is what it means to be one human family, headed inexorably Ad Astra. I am so grateful for the weekly reminder of what we can be when we're at our best and doing great things together <3
Apple Podcasts5yuhfdfbgedUnited States10 months ago - Excellent podcast
Fascinating topics given by enthusiastic hosts. Could listen all day to programs like this!
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Weekly conversations connect space science with the people, engineering, and policy behind exploration. Sarah Al-Ahmed leads interviews with planetary scientists, astronauts, engineers, researchers, advocates, and authors, while recurring features add context on missions, space history, and astronomy. Book Club editions bring authors into discussions of topics such as human spaceflight and the possibility of life beyond Earth, and Space Policy editions examine how funding, commercial models, and government decisions shape research and exploration.
The focus ranges across planetary missions, astronomy, small bodies, space technology, human spaceflight, and the future of exploration. Technical ideas are explained through firsthand accounts f... more
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