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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
1,361 episodes · Science · by The Planetary Society
About Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science is a Science podcast with 1,361 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Recent Episodes
Book Club Edition: Alien Oceans by Kevin Hand — September 18, 2026Star Trek at 60: What Vulcans and Klingons can teach us about being human (Part 2) — September 16, 2026Star Trek at 60: What do we value the most? (Part 1) — September 09, 2026Space Policy Edition: The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald — September 04, 2026World Space Week and farewell to Swift — September 02, 2026The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch — August 26, 2026Book Club Edition: Becoming Martian by Scott Solomon — August 21, 2026The SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon — August 19, 2026Total solar eclipse 2026: Astrophotography and birdsong — August 12, 2026Space Policy Edition: “Science: A New Golden Age” - Reimagining U.S. science policy — August 07, 2026LHS 1140b: The first atmosphere detected on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet — August 05, 2026TERP RAPTOR: A student-built mission to asteroid Apophis — July 29, 2026Hot Jupiters: The ‘Roasted Planet’ and the wrong-way hotspot — July 22, 2026Book Club Edition: “The Edge of Space-Time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein — July 17, 2026Sian Proctor and John Read on teaching babies to love the Cosmos — July 15, 2026Small Town Universe: Inside Green Bank's Radio Quiet Zone — July 08, 2026Space Policy Edition: What's going on with commercial space stations? — July 03, 2026Rosalind Franklin and the search for life on Mars — July 01, 2026Tianwen-2: China closes in on Kamoʻoalewa — June 24, 2026Book Club Edition: “To Be Taught, If Fortunate” with Becky Chambers — June 19, 2026Flying on Titan: The engineering of Dragonfly — June 17, 2026U.S. space science in flux: Grant rules, rockets, and reorganization — June 10, 2026Space Policy Edition: A proposal to stifle American science — June 05, 2026Spacewoman with Eileen Collins — June 03, 2026Los Angeles Astronomical Society celebrates 100 years of looking up — May 27, 2026Twenty organic molecules found in an ancient Martian rock — May 20, 2026Book Club Edition: Diane Ackerman and “The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral” — May 15, 2026Igniting Discovery: A showcase of NASA-funded research — May 13, 2026Day of Action 2026: Rejoining the fight to save NASA science — May 06, 2026Space Policy Edition: Why humans matter — The philosophy of Artemis II — May 01, 2026Yuri's Night 2026: Celebrating 65 years of human spaceflight — April 29, 2026Project Hail Mary hits the big screen — April 22, 2026Book Club Edition: Founder and CEO Peter Beck on The Launch of Rocket Lab — April 17, 2026Triumph and turmoil: Artemis II and the renewed fight to save NASA science — April 15, 2026Artemis II launches to the Moon — April 08, 2026Space Policy Edition: Return to Launch — Cape Canaveral's unlikely history — April 03, 2026Artemis II’s AVATAR and a sungrazing comet — April 01, 2026The astronaut health experiments of Artemis II — March 25, 2026Book Club Edition: The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life — March 20, 2026The 18th European Space Conference: Dreaming of European boots on the Moon — March 18, 2026Starman: Looking back on a life exploring the Solar System — March 11, 2026Space Policy Edition: Is there really a space race between the US and China? — March 06, 2026Artemis update: NASA reshapes the road back to the Moon — March 04, 2026Did an impact trigger cryovolcanism on Umbriel? — February 25, 2026Book Club Edition: Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts’ latest for kids — February 20, 2026A new chapter at The Planetary Society: Jennifer Vaughn becomes CEO — February 18, 2026Where did Earth’s water come from? Clues hidden in Apollo Moon dust — February 11, 2026Space Policy Edition: What a NASA Authorization bill actually does — February 06, 2026Europa’s quiet seafloor — February 04, 2026Artemis II and III: The science that brings us back to the Moon — January 28, 2026
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