The Planetary Society teams up with an e-sports team. This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Al-Ahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Today we're exploring an unexpected but

powerful crossover, gaming and space science. Basilisk is an esports team with a mission that goes

beyond the game. Alongside champions in Starcraft 2, chess, and even Magic the Gathering,

they're carrying the banner of science victory. Through a new partnership

with the Planetary Society, that message is now reaching space fans as well as gamers. Kyle Hill,

who's an award-winning science educator and now head of science education and outreach at Basilisk,

joins me to share how this team is reaching new audiences, building inclusive spaces for gamers and scientists,

and making science something we can all cheer for.

Later in the show in What's Up, Bruce Betts, our chief scientists and I talk about some of our favorite space-themed games,

and our upcoming appearance in PBS Sokels, Won't You Be My Gamer?

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I love video games. They bring together so many different facets of human art and cultures.

Our new technologies have allowed us to take storytelling to a completely different immersive level.

As a space fan, that means that I get to step foot on worlds that I've only ever seen in images from spacecraft or in my own imagination.

In games, I've walked the ice of Europa. I've built dyes and spheres to power entire civilizations.

I've even power washed the dust off of Mars rover's solar panels.

Games have given me this profound way to experience and learn more about space science.

I may never be able to travel to space myself, fingers crossed. But through gaming, I've explored the stars and visited worlds that no one else will see,

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