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

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are ...

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 turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

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

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

For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...

Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument will shut off on March 24. This leaves each probe with three functioning science instruments.Related video above: Voyager 1 ...

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

Unfortunately, the time has now come to turn off more instruments on both spacecraft. NASA announced yesterday it has shut ...