Meet the Winners of The Planetary Society’s 2026 STEP Grants
The Planetary Society’s 2026 STEP Grant winners are building tools to characterize asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects: a replicable polar...
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Each week, Planetary Radio visits with a scientist, engineer, project manager, advocate or writer who can provide a unique perspective on the quest for knowledge about astronomy, our solar s...
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Book Club Edition: Dinner With an Astronaut by Leroy Chiao
Former astronaut Leroy Chiao is our guest for a conversation about his book, “Dinner With an Astronaut,” and a lifetime of accomplishments o...
From the Mojave to Phobos: PlanetVac rides with MMX
Japan’s MMX mission is about to launch for the moons of Mars, carrying a sampler with deep Planetary Society roots. Asa Stahl, public outrea...
Space Policy Edition: What does “science as a service” really mean?
Jack Kiraly, chief of advocacy for The Planetary Society, and planetary scientist Britney Schmidt join Casey Dreier to examine NASA’s push t...
2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 2 — Solar sails and breathing beyond Earth
More conversations from the 2026 NIAC Symposium, this time about the propulsion and life support breakthroughs that could carry us to the ou...
2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 1 — Nuclear sensors and cave explorers
Researchers at the 2026 NIAC Symposium share their bold concepts for exploring the most inaccessible places in our Solar System, from the Mo...
Hayabusa2 flies by asteroid Torifune
NASA Chief Scientist for Small Body Exploration at Johnson Space Center, Paul Abell, takes us inside Hayabusa2's flyby of asteroid Torifune...
Book Club Edition: Alien Oceans by Kevin Hand
Planetary scientist Kevin Hand joins us for a deep exploration of his excellent book about the search for life in the oceans of other worlds...
Star Trek at 60: What Vulcans and Klingons can teach us about being human (Part 2)
In part two of our Star Trek 60th anniversary series, Tim Russ, Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager, and Karim Diané, Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek...
Star Trek at 60: What do we value the most? (Part 1)
Robert Picardo, the Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek: Voyager and now Starfleet Academy, traces the sixty-year bond between Star Tr...
Space Policy Edition: The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald
Alex MacDonald, former Chief Economist at NASA and author of "The Long Space Age," joins Casey Dreier to explore more than two centuries of...
World Space Week and farewell to Swift
Dennis Stone, president and co-founder of the World Space Week Association, shares how the largest annual space event on Earth came to be an...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is preparing to launch, promising to transform our understanding of dark energy and exoplanets. We tal...
Book Club Edition: Becoming Martian by Scott Solomon
How will living in space change our bodies and minds? That’s the sub-title of Scott Solomon’s great new book, “Becoming Martian”, and it’s t...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon
Jared Head, museum facilitator at Columbia Memorial Space Center and co-host of All Space Considered at Griffith Observatory, breaks down ho...
Total solar eclipse 2026: Astrophotography and birdsong
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and bioacoustics researcher David Mann, join Planetary Radio to talk about the August 12th total solar ecl...
Space Policy Edition: “Science: A New Golden Age” - Reimagining U.S. science policy
Casey Dreier is joined by Zach Pirtle, deputy director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, and t...
LHS 1140b: The first atmosphere detected on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet
Collin Cherubim, NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Chicago, discusses his team's detection of an atmosphere on LHS 1140b, the first ro...
TERP RAPTOR: A student-built mission to asteroid Apophis
A team of University of Maryland students is building a CubeSat to fly past asteroid Apophis during its historic close approach to Earth in...
Hot Jupiters: The ‘Roasted Planet’ and the wrong-way hotspot
Research Scientist Tiffany Kataria of NASA JPL and Assistant Professor Lisa Dang of the University of Waterloo talk about two extreme hot Ju...