Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rhino named Beckham after the former England footballer is one of the animals who have had the pellets injected into their horns ...

On Thursday, NASA is expected to launch its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. It’s the agency’s largest and most autonomous Martian ...

as technicians packed up the newest Mars rover for launch. One of the last things installed was a nuclear power generator. It holds marshmallow sized pellets of plutonium that will fuel the electric ...

video: ORNL produces some pretty out-of-this-world materials. Plutonium-238, a unique iridium alloy, and carbon-bonded carbon fiber are all key ingredients for deep space exploration. NASA uses these ...

Beckham, a 1.7 ton rhino named after the English footballer, on Tuesday had a radioactive pellet drilled into his horn as a program to discourage poaching of the endangered animals in South Africa ...

A South African startup that’s promoting the use of implanted radioactive pellets to deter the poaching of endangered animals such as rhinos is seeking venture capital support to roll out the project ...