We're looking back on space exploration in 2025, 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.

As 2025 comes to a close,

we're taking a moment to look back at a year that tested space exploration

and the people who make it possible,

while still delivering some truly breathtaking achievements.

First, I'm joined by Kate Howells,

our public education specialist here at the Planetary Society.

She'll share our best of 2025 voting results and our Year in Pictures edition of our quarterly magazine, The Planetary Report.

Then I'll sit down with members of our communications team.

Matt Kaplan, our Senior Communications Advisor, Asa Stahl, our science editor, and Amber Trujillo, our digital community manager.

Together we're going to reflect on the biggest space exploration stories of 2025, from lunar landings and asteroid samples to solar storms, exoplanet milestones, new spacecraft, and new generation telescopes.

And after all of that, we'll wrap up the year in What's Up with Bruce Betz, our chief scientist,

as we look ahead to a brighter 2026.

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At the end of each year, the Planetary Society invites people all around the world to vote on the best images, missions, discoveries, and accomplishments that defined this recent orbit around the Sun.

To talk about this year's results, I'm joined by Kate Howells, our public education specialist here at the Planetary Society.

Kate led our Best of 2025 campaign, but she also edits the Planetary Report, our quarterly member magazine.

In addition to this year's voting results, Kate's going to tell us about the most recent edition of our magazine,

our year in pictures, which looks back at 2025 through the images that captured the beauty, emotion, and scale of this year in space exploration.

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