Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Powering ...

Zeno Power's first full-scale radioisotope power systems will be fuelled by strontium-90 material recycled from a legacy radioisotope generator under a new public-private partnership with the US ...

This device, driven by a radioisotope heat source, will allow an order of magnitude increase in mass specific power (~30 vs ~3 W/kg) and a three orders of magnitude decrease in volume (~0.2 vs ~212 L) ...

It’s been several years now since NASA started the Innovative Advanced Concepts program. NIAC for short, it’s an effort to publicly recognize the merits of people’s ideas when it comes to the tools we ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the ...

Welcome to the world of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators or RTGs. It's a piece of nuclear history I only recently learned about and thought I should bring this whole new horror to your attention ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth. Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the ...