In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its instruments.

NASA plans to disable instruments on its iconic Voyager probes to extend the missions of the two farthest human-made objects ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have just kept swimming – or zooming through space, collecting data from interstellar space ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...

It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar ...

NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...

Engineers shut down the cosmic ray subsystem instrument on Voyager 1 on February 25. This tool, which consists of three telescopes that study cosmic rays, helped ...

NASA had to shut down even more scientific instruments on board its Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as power reserves dwindle.

Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. The Voyager ...