A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting with two of the scientists who will do the work: Dan Werthimer of UC Berkeley and Karen O’Neil of the Green Bank Telescope.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Keith Cowing and the ISEE-3 Rebooters

Keith Cowing and the ISEE-3 Rebooters

They have generated excitement, enthusiasm and support throughout the world. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project has succeeded in gaining control over the 36-year old spacecraft, but will they be able to move i...

22 Jul 201428min

Planetary Radio Live: The LightSail Countdown Begins!

Planetary Radio Live: The LightSail Countdown Begins!

LightSail, the Planetary Society’s innovative solar sail cubesat, will ride into space on the huge SpaceX Falcon Heavy, now in development. Bill Nye and others join us for a live celebration of this a...

15 Jul 201428min

Discovered: Titan's Magic Island

Discovered: Titan's Magic Island

Cornell grad student Jason Hofgartner reports on the discovery of what appears (and disappears!) to be an island on one of Titan’s frigid lakes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

8 Jul 201428min

Was a Natural Fuel Cell Key to the Origin of Life on Earth?

Was a Natural Fuel Cell Key to the Origin of Life on Earth?

There’s so much we don’t know about the origin of life here or anywhere else in the universe. But there must have been an energy source. Researcher Laurie Barge led work that simulated the natural for...

1 Jul 201428min

Elisa Quintana on the Discovery of Earth 2.0

Elisa Quintana on the Discovery of Earth 2.0

Kepler-186f is the very first exoplanet that is both the size of our own world and in the habitable zone surrounding its star. SETI Institute scientist Elisa Quintana is lead author of the paper annou...

24 Jun 201428min

Pathways To Exploration: John Logsdon Analyzes the Human Spaceflight Report

Pathways To Exploration: John Logsdon Analyzes the Human Spaceflight Report

The National Research Council released its long-awaited report June 4th. Distinguished space policy analyst John Logsdon returns to Planetary Radio with his take on this latest attempt to determine th...

17 Jun 201435min

Astronomers Without Borders: Spreading the Wonder Worldwide

Astronomers Without Borders: Spreading the Wonder Worldwide

Astronomers Without Borders Founder and President Mike Simmons and his colleagues share the passion, beauty and joy of the night sky from Argentina to Zambia.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

10 Jun 201428min

A Starlight Festival Cassini Mission Update

A Starlight Festival Cassini Mission Update

Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker joins us at the first Starlight Festival in Big Bear Lake, California, and festival MC Andre Bormanis makes a bonus appearance on the show.Learn more about your...

3 Jun 201442min

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