Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
By The Planetary Society
Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our Solar System and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates, and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Sarah Al-Ahmed and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bruce Betts as they dive deep into space science and exploration. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio...
Recent Episodes
Space Policy Edition: Is there really a space race between the US and China?
6 Mar 2026
Artemis update: NASA reshapes the road back to the Moon
4 Mar 2026
Did an impact trigger cryovolcanism on Umbriel?
25 Feb 2026
Book Club Edition: Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts’ latest for kids
20 Feb 2026
A new chapter at The Planetary Society: Jennifer Vaughn becomes CEO
18 Feb 2026
Where did Earth’s water come from? Clues hidden in Apollo Moon dust
11 Feb 2026
Space Policy Edition: What a NASA Authorization bill actually does
6 Feb 2026
Europa’s quiet seafloor
4 Feb 2026
Artemis II and III: The science that brings us back to the Moon
28 Jan 2026
NASA science saved: Inside the 2026 budget victory
21 Jan 2026
Book Club Edition: The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank
16 Jan 2026
IMAP and the shape of the heliosphere
14 Jan 2026
Voyager and the heliopause: Exploring where the Sun gives way to the stars
7 Jan 2026
Space Policy Edition: Change for the Sake of Disruption at NASA
2 Jan 2026
Looking back: Space exploration in 2025
31 Dec 2025
Looking back: Space policy and advocacy in 2025
24 Dec 2025
Book Club Edition: MOONS: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
19 Dec 2025
Galileo at 30: How a mission transformed our understanding of Jupiter
17 Dec 2025
Space Policy Edition: The Moral Case for Space Science
12 Dec 2025
Inside the 2025 Mars Society Convention
10 Dec 2025
ESCAPADE begins its journey to Mars
3 Dec 2025
Smart Girl Dumb Questions: Casey Dreier answers why space is worth it
26 Nov 2025
Book Club Edition: The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron
21 Nov 2025
Epic Spaceman: Making cosmic scale human
19 Nov 2025
The Planetary Society goes to TwitchCon 2025
12 Nov 2025
Space Policy Edition: Should a (potential) biosignature revive Mars Sample Return?
7 Nov 2025
Do Aliens Speak Physics?
5 Nov 2025
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean
29 Oct 2025
2025 NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 2 — Hopping robots and the search for exoplanet magnetospheres
22 Oct 2025
Book Club Edition: Space Craze by Margaret Weitekamp
