Finding Life by Looking for Complexity

Finding Life by Looking for Complexity

University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin and his collaborators have developed a new way to detect life. Their "assembly theory" could give us a reliable method for recognizing life or evidence of past life based on the complexity of molecules in any environment. The Planetary Society’s Rae Paoletta shares our favorite images of Saturn’s rings with Mat. Bruce Betts reveals which star takes up more of Earth’s night sky as he resolves another What’s Up space quiz. Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/lee-cronin-assembly-theory

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Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?

Discovering life elsewhere: How can we be sure?

Is it life? NASA chief scientist Jim Green and Mary Voytek, leader of the agency’s astrobiology program, are two authors of a paper that calls for a system or scale that will allow scientists and othe...

1 Joulu 20211h 10min

Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw

Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw

Ariel Ekblaw and her Space Exploration Initiative colleagues believe we are at the cusp of interplanetary civilization. They are building the tools, environments and knowledge that will speed the tran...

24 Marras 202158min

The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot

The DART asteroid impact mission begins, with Nancy Chabot

DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot and the rest of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test team will see their spacecraft rocket toward asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos in a few days. She returns to Plan...

17 Marras 202152min

Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes

Spacecraft communications and navigation with Badri Younes

Badri Younes says that a spacecraft that can’t communicate or find its way is worthless. He leads SCaN, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program, which manages resources like the agency’s De...

10 Marras 202159min

Space Policy Edition: We're entering a new era of planetary defense (with Lindley Johnson)

Space Policy Edition: We're entering a new era of planetary defense (with Lindley Johnson)

The first in-space test of asteroid deflection technology, DART, launches this month. Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense coordination officer, joins the show to talk about how this mission repr...

5 Marras 20211h 11min

Sarah Al Amiri and the new UAE mission to the asteroid belt

Sarah Al Amiri and the new UAE mission to the asteroid belt

The chair of the United Arab Emirates space agency returns with news of an ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids. Sarah also shares the latest science from the Emirates Mars Mission Hope orbite...

3 Marras 202148min

Sally Ride: Revisiting our 2005 conversation

Sally Ride: Revisiting our 2005 conversation

Host Mat Kaplan has wanted to reshare his first conversation with the great Sally Ride for years. Sally talks about women in space, the loss of space shuttle Challenger, and her devotion to sharing th...

27 Loka 202130min

Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium

Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium

Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan interviewed NIAC Fellows about their revolutionary projects as part of the 2021 virtual symposium. You’ll hear highlights including how we might grow structures on the ...

20 Loka 20211h 18min

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