An illustration of the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring space beyond the solar system. | Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that ...

Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now has just three running after NASA turned off another gadget to ...

In brief: Mission control specialists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are taking additional energy-conserving measures to ensure their Voyager probes can continue operating in interstellar ...

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes are reaching the end of their service lives. NASA announced that ...

Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though they've faced some setbacks over the years. Now, NASA has announced that ...

NASA has switched off further systems on Voyager 1 and 2. In doing so, the US space agency wants to extend the mission of the two probes and ensure that they are still active on the 50th ...

NASA has announced plans to switch off another science instrument on the Voyager 2 spacecraft later this month, in a bid to conserve dwindling power supplies. This follows a similar step taken ...

NASA has taken the decision to shut off two more instruments on the iconic Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, in order to extend their missions a little further. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures ...