Close-up observations of Pluto would be impossible without the use of generators that rely on cancer-causing plutonium to produce electricity and heat for New Horizons' instrumentation. Pluto is much ...

A spacecraft is only as strong as its power source, which is why when NASA was designing its Perseverance Mars rover, the agency turned to radioactive plutonium. The plutonium that will be blasting ...

Do you remember the scene in “Back to the Future” where the mad scientist, Dr. Emmett Brown, explains to Marty McFly that his DeLorean time machine runs on plutonium? That it needs plutonium for “a ...