The farthest spacecraft from Earth, Voyager 1 is currently exploring uncharted ... turning off any systems that weren’t crucial for flying the probes about five years ago. Some of those systems ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Voyager 1 is over 24.14 billion kilometers from Earth and Voyager 2 is over 20.92 billion kilometers away. Listen to Story ...

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 ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science ...

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled farther away ... other systems that are not essential to keeping the spacecraft flying." To keep power going to some of the remaining instruments ...

Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment was turned off on February 25th. When the low-energy charged particle instrument aboard Voyager 2 is shut down on March 24th, both spacecraft will ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

After more than forty-six years all of us are likely to feel the wear of time, and Voyager 1 is no different. Following months of harrowing troubleshooting as the far-flung spacecraft stopped ...

Last week, NASA powered down an instrument on Voyager 1 designed to study cosmic rays. The energy-saving moves were necessary to extend their missions, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at the ...