The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...
The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...
Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in ...