A Conversation With Congressman Lamar Smith
The Chairman of the powerful Science, Space and Technology Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives joins us for a talk about planetary science, Europa, a human flyby of Mars and much more.Learn...
30 Sep 201428min
Planetary Radio Live: MAVEN Arrives at Mars!
The latest guest of the Red Planet arrived in orbit on the evening of September 22, 2014. Planetary Radio Live was watching with fingers crossed in Pasadena, California.Learn more about your ad choice...
23 Sep 201428min
Dr. Bell Goes to Washington
Planetary Scientist Jim Bell of Arizona State University joined other experts in front of the US House of Representatives Space Committee on September 10th. Get his report this week.Learn more about y...
16 Sep 201428min
Miguel Alcubierre, Inventor of Warp Drive?
Inspired by Star Trek, distinguished physicist Miguel Alcubierre developed the general relativity-based model for warp drive 20 years ago. Hear why he doubts it will ever be a reality, and learn about...
9 Sep 201428min
Smashing Holes in Mars to Look for Life
Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tell us how the ExoLance project might find it.Learn more a...
2 Sep 201428min
Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto
New Horizons passed through the orbit of Neptune on August 25th. By cosmic coincidence, this was the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s flyby of that big, blue world. We catch Principal Investigator Alan...
26 Aug 201428min
Journey to the Center of Jupiter: Creating Fantastic Pressure With the World’s Largest Lasers
Physicist Gilbert "Rip" Collins of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab will tell us about recent use of the world’s most powerful lasers to recreate conditions at the cores of giant planets.Learn more...
19 Aug 201429min
The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?
Harvard’s Henry Lin led work that determined the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by analyzing its atmosphere.Learn more about your ad choices...
12 Aug 201428min
