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

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday ...

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

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

NASA is turning off more science instruments on its Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes that could help extend the life of the ...

Veteran probes close in on the half century More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers ...