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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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 fin... Read more

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Zibi Turtle and a Mission to the Ice Giants

Zibi Turtle and a Mission to the Ice Giants

They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth ... Read more

22 Sep 2015

28mins

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Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It

Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It

The planet has the less than romantic name TOI 700 d, but its discovery has generated passion among those searching for ... Read more

12 Feb 2020

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Getting Humans to Mars Without Breaking the Bank

Getting Humans to Mars Without Breaking the Bank

NASA scientist Harley Thronson tells us about a new initiative that is figuring out how we will get men and women to the... Read more

18 Feb 2014

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From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of “The Cosmos”

From Earth to the Edge of the Universe: A New Edition of “The Cosmos”

Astronomers Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko join us for a conversation about their newest version of their monumental ... Read more

21 Jan 2014

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Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?

Civilizations Among the Clustered Stars?

New research indicates that globular clusters—collections of up to a million stars—could provide stable environments for... Read more

26 Jan 2016

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Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope

Dr. J and the World’s Biggest Telescope

Joe Liske, host of Hubblecast, is also the top scientist on the European Southern Observatory’s European Extremely Large... Read more

13 Jan 2015

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Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury

Sean Solomon on the Climactic End of the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury

We open with the countdown to destruction—the MESSENGER spacecraft’s impact on Mercury ended its spectacularly successfu... Read more

5 May 2015

28mins

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Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars

Chris Carberry and Getting Humans to Mars

Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a... Read more

2 Jun 2015

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The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu

The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu

After a year of circling close to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft is almost ready to dip down and c... Read more

22 Jan 2020

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Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak

Space, SETI, the Singularity and Shostak

Where is everybody? That was the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked when he wondered why we hadn’t yet met ET. What w... Read more

7 Feb 2018

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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude

Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, ... Read more

28 Jul 2015

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Mighty Jupiter Revealed

Mighty Jupiter Revealed

It’s more massive than all the other planets combined. In nearly four years at Jupiter the Juno spacecraft has returned ... Read more

29 Jan 2020

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Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1

Visiting the Earth-Like Worlds of TRAPPIST-1

We have begun to understand the composition of worlds that are hundreds of trillions of kilometers from Earth. Astronome... Read more

11 Apr 2018

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Planet 9 From Outer Space!

Planet 9 From Outer Space!

Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin fully expect a new and undemotable ninth planet will be found in the outer reaches of ... Read more

9 Feb 2016

49mins

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A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b

A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b

SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mas... Read more

14 Jul 2015

28mins

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Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman

Spiraling Closer to Ceres With the Dawn Mission’s Marc Rayman

It’s the biggest dwarf planet between here and Pluto, and it has a new permanent resident. The Dawn spacecraft is orbiti... Read more

19 May 2015

33mins

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Microbes in Orbit: Cheryl Nickerson’s Revealing Biomedical Research

Microbes in Orbit: Cheryl Nickerson’s Revealing Biomedical Research

You may have heard that the sometimes deadly Salmonella bacterium becomes stronger in microgravity. Cheryl Nickerson tel... Read more

8 Apr 2014

42mins

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Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”

Jim Bell Welcomes “The Interstellar Age”

Planetary scientist and author Jim Bell has just written “The Interstellar Age—Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission.” H... Read more

3 Mar 2015

46mins

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Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life

Where Do We Come From? The Origin of Life

Astrobiology is the discipline that explores the origin of life in the universe, and whether life exists anywhere other ... Read more

30 Jan 2019

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2014: The Year in Space

2014: The Year in Space

Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill... Read more

30 Dec 2014

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