Ramses and rockets: Commercial space adventures and the race to Apophis
Get up to speed on the latest in commercial space news. Mat Kaplan, the senior communications advisor for The Planetary Society, returns with an update on the fate of the Boeing Starliner astronauts, ...
28 Aug 202459min
Crickets and gastrodiplomacy: The future of space food
As we look to build a more sustainable human presence in space, we will need to find new and innovative ways to feed our travelers. This week, we hear from Team Insecta, a group of Canadian students e...
21 Aug 20241h
An Earthling’s guide to the "Moons Symphony"
Planetary Radio takes a melodic adventure to the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, USA, for the public premiere of the "Moons Symphony." Mat Kaplan, senior communications advisor at The Planetary Society,...
14 Aug 202453min
Hide and seek with Planet 9
A ninth planet may be lurking in our Solar System out beyond Neptune. Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin join us to discuss their new paper, the latest evidence for Planet 9, and why they bel...
7 Aug 202452min
Space Policy Edition: Do we need a philosophy of space exploration?
Why do we explore space? This is not an easy question to answer. Yet policy expert G. Ryan Faith believes there is value to be had in communal engagement with this question. While easy answers may elu...
2 Aug 20241h 8min
Possible biomarkers: Perseverance rocks the Tenth International Conference on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars: a sample that may hold evidence of ancient microbial life. This week, we visit the Tenth International Conference on Mars, where ...
31 Jul 202459min
Victory for VERITAS
Fans of Venus were saddened in late 2022 to learn that one of NASA's upcoming Venus missions, VERITAS, was defunded, but with the help of space advocates, the mission is now back on. Darby Dyar, the d...
24 Jul 202457min
The penguin, the egg, and the asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris
We celebrate the second anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) science operations with Christine Chen, associate astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She describes the ...
17 Jul 20241h 2min
