NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, both running on nuclear power, now have access to just a portion of the 470 ...

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...

Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...

The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment was shut down by engineers on Friday (April 17) to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space. When you purchase through links ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are the ...

NASA's Voyager 1 was launched almost 49 years ago and is still actively travelling through deep space, currently over 15 billion miles away from Earth. Voyager 1 was created by humans and is the ...