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Book Club Edition: Cosmos Award–winning author Dava Sobel
Only six people have received The Planetary Society’s Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science. We were honored to present it to author and historian Dava Sobel in May of 2025. She…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A cosmic travel guide: 111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss
Pack your cosmic suitcase. This week on Planetary Radio, host Sarah Al-Ahmed is joined by Mark McCaughrean, astronomer, science communicator, and former Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration at th…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
International Observe the Moon Night 2025
This week on Planetary Radio, we look forward to International Observe the Moon Night on October 4, 2025. Host Sarah Al-Ahmed speaks with Staci Horvath, outreach coordinator for NASA’s Solar System E…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Space Policy Edition: Does the rise of Elon mean the decline of NASA?
NASA, the crown jewel of 20th-century technocratic liberalism, was the first to land humans on the Moon but now depends on SpaceX for its access to space. Atlantic writer Franklin Foer believes this …
Published on 2 months ago
Uranus revealed: Solving the ice giant’s heat mystery
For decades, Uranus has puzzled scientists. Unlike the other giant planets, Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby suggested the ice giant emitted no excess heat. Now, thanks to new analyses of Voyager data, decades…
Published on 2 months ago
Esports and space: BASILISK’s quest for “Science Victory”
BASILISK, the first esports organization dedicated to promoting science, has teamed up with The Planetary Society and Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter to bring the banner of “Sc…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Silicate clouds and a dusty ring: JWST looks at YSES-1
In 2020, the YSES-1 system became the first directly imaged multiplanetary system around a Sun-like star. It features two giant exoplanets orbiting a star just 16 million years old. Now, the James We…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Book Club Edition: Exploring the Overview Effect with Frank White
Author Frank White has interviewed well over 100 astronauts. Almost all of them report the sense of awe they experienced as they looked down or back at Earth, and how deeply this has affected their u…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A “Star Trek” future: Your place in space
What do “Star Trek,” space advocacy, and the fight to save NASA science have in common? In this episode of Planetary Radio, we share a special panel recorded live at STLV: Trek to Vegas 2025, featuri…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
3I/ATLAS: The third interstellar object ever found
Just three interstellar objects have ever been detected in our Solar System, each arriving from the depths of interstellar space. In this episode, we explore the latest: 3I/ATLAS, a newly discovered …
Published on 3 months ago