Planetary Radio
Planetary Radio is the weekly adventure on the final frontier produced by the Planetary Society and it's CEO, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Listen to host Mat Kaplan's conversations with the scientists, engineers, dreamers and leaders at the forefront of space exploration. You'll also hear our regular segments with Bill, "Planetary Evangelist" Emily Lakdawalla, and Director of Science and Technology Bruce Betts. Enter the weekly space trivia contest for your chance to win out-of-this-world prizes!
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Episodes (589)
The oldest organic molecules in the known Universe
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Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance
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Space Policy Edition: The policy implications of active SETI
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The Science You’ve Enabled
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Exoplanet enigma: Unpacking the discovery of a "forbidden" planet
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Inspiring the next generation through space education
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The case for saving VERITAS
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Space Policy Edition: SpaceX's Starship vs. the environment, with Eric Roesch
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Adventures at the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference
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Juice mission liftoff: A new era of icy moon exploration begins
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Under Alien Skies with Phil Plait
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Yuri’s Night: For all SpaceKind
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Space Policy Edition: The motives behind NASA's billions — Jean Toal Eisen on ho...
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Two Years of Hope: Celebrating the Emirates Mars Mission
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Volcanic Venus? New insights from vintage data
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Getting psyched for Psyche
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Universal Harmonies: Sonifying images for science and accessibility
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Looking back on Voyager’s 45th Anniversary
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Space Policy Edition: The Tricky Ethics of Space Settlement
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The Canadian Lunar Rover with Peter Visscher
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Martian rock collecting: From meteorites to Mars Sample Return
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Are we alone? The search for alien technosignatures
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More on Mars’ Watery History
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Space Policy Edition: The White House's Matt Daniels on the U.S.'s New Cislunar...
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JWST confirms its first exoplanet
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Juno Journeys to Jupiter’s Moons
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Martian Mic Drop
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Celebrating NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon
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Space Policy Edition: JPL Director wants "every brain" to have the chance to wor...
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Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan
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Planetary Society All-Stars Review the Year in Space
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Artemis 1 Orion capsule comes home, and the best of Planetary Radio
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One Last Blast: Author of ‘The Martian’ Andy Weir with JPL Chief Engineer Rob Ma...
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Scientist and Hubble Repairman John Grunsfeld
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Space Policy Edition: NASA's Economic Impact with Alex MacDonald and Joshua Dru...
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A Happy 20th Anniversary for Planetary Radio
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Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin
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Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker
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Space Policy Edition: What the Congressional Midterms Means for Space Science
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Ann Druyan wishes you a happy Sagan Day
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Space Policy Edition Bonus: Q&A with Casey Dreier and Bill Nye
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DART smacked an asteroid! So what’s next in planetary defense?
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Meet the new Planetary Radio host! (and enjoy a beer with a cosmologist)
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Eyes on the Sky: Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey
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Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects
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Space Policy Edition: The Geopolitics of a Successful SETI Detection
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Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory looks back
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Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos, and we meet space image artist and processor...
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Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?
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It’s Not Just NASA: Space Agency Leaders at the Artemis 1 Launch Attempt
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