Small Town Universe: Inside Green Bank's Radio Quiet Zone
Green Bank, West Virginia is home to the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope. It's also the only town in the U.S. where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, so the telescope can listen for fa...
8 Jul 55min
Space Policy Edition: What's going on with commercial space stations?
NASA's plan for what comes after the International Space Station (ISS) has been anything but stable. Since 2019, the agency's commercial space station strategy has shifted from free-flying vendor-oper...
3 Jul 57min
Rosalind Franklin and the search for life on Mars
After more than two decades, the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover finally has a path to the launchpad. This week, ExoMars Project Scientist Jorge Vago joins Planetary Radio to talk abou...
1 Jul 57min
Tianwen-2: China closes in on Kamoʻoalewa
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has successfully arrived at Kamoʻoalewa—a tiny, enigmatic "quasi-satellite" that dances along with Earth on its trek around the Sun. A fascinating scientific debate is hea...
24 Jun 59min
Book Club Edition: “To Be Taught, If Fortunate” with Becky Chambers
This outstanding novella, “To Be Taught, If Fortunate” by award-winning science fiction author Becky Chambers, is a passionate argument for the human exploration of space and the wonders we will find ...
19 Jun 1h 6min
Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly
Saturn's moon Titan is one of the most Earth-like worlds in our Solar System, with a dense nitrogen atmosphere, weather cycles, methane rivers, and vast organic dune fields. It also happens to be the ...
17 Jun 59min
U.S. space science in flux: Grant rules, rockets, and reorganization
Between budget battles, proposed grant rule changes, and an exploding Blue Origin rocket, there's a lot to cover in U.S. space policy right now. Jack Kiraly, The Planetary Society's director of govern...
10 Jun 56min
Space Policy Edition: A proposal to stifle American science
The White House's Office of Management and Budget has released a sweeping 400-page proposed rule change that would fundamentally alter how the U.S. federal government manages grants, affecting everyth...
5 Jun 52min
