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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

1,363 episodesEN-US

Show overview

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science has been publishing since 2002, and across the 24 years since has built a catalogue of 1,363 episodes. That works out to over 1000 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 29 min and 58 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 57 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The Planetary Society.

Episodes
1,363
Running
2002–2026 · 24y
Median length
36 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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 for an episode guide and much more.

2026 NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 1 — Nuclear sensors and cave explorers

Sep 30, 20261h 1m

Hayabusa2 flies by asteroid Torifune

Sep 23, 20261h 0m

Book Club Edition: Alien Oceans by Kevin Hand

Sep 18, 20261h 7m

Star Trek at 60: What Vulcans and Klingons can teach us about being human (Part 2)

Sep 16, 20261h 7m

Star Trek at 60: What do we value the most? (Part 1)

Sep 9, 202659 min

Space Policy Edition: The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald

Sep 4, 20261h 7m

World Space Week and farewell to Swift

Sep 2, 20261h 4m

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch

Aug 26, 202656 min

Book Club Edition: Becoming Martian by Scott Solomon

Aug 21, 20261h 17m

The SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon

Aug 19, 20261h 3m

Total solar eclipse 2026: Astrophotography and birdsong

Aug 12, 202657 min

Space Policy Edition: “Science: A New Golden Age” - Reimagining U.S. science policy

Aug 7, 20261h 10m

LHS 1140b: The first atmosphere detected on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet

Aug 5, 202657 min

TERP RAPTOR: A student-built mission to asteroid Apophis

Jul 29, 20261h 1m

Hot Jupiters: The ‘Roasted Planet’ and the wrong-way hotspot

Jul 22, 20261h 2m

Book Club Edition: “The Edge of Space-Time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Jul 17, 202659 min

Sian Proctor and John Read on teaching babies to love the Cosmos

Jul 15, 202657 min

Small Town Universe: Inside Green Bank's Radio Quiet Zone

Jul 8, 202655 min

Space Policy Edition: What's going on with commercial space stations?

Jul 3, 202657 min

Rosalind Franklin and the search for life on Mars

Jul 1, 202657 min
2026 The Planetary Society