The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

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 the twin ...

However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...

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

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...

Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecrafts are currently exploring interstellar space. Voyager 1 is now 24.14 billion ...

NASA is shutting down a science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power and sustain the 47-year-old spacecraft’s mission in ...

NASA is shutting down instruments on the Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest explorers, allowing them to continue sending ...