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

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

Voyager 1 is losing power, and NASA just shut down a decades-old instrument to keep it going. The sacrifice could help the ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

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.

Key instrument shut down: NASA turned off Voyager 1’s Low-energy Charged Particles experiment to conserve power and prevent automatic fault protection shutdowns. Big Bang plan ahead: Engineers will ...

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific devices will help it conserve energy and continue traveling toward the edge ...

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

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 ...

“While shutting down a science instrument is not anybody’s preference, it is the best option available,” said Kareem Badaruddin, Voyager mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...