On September 26, NASA engineers issued the command to turn off the plasma instrument, which took 19 hours to reach the distant probe and another 19 hours for it to return a signal. NASA confirmed that ...

Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Tuesday ...

On Tuesday, NASA said it shut down Voyager 2's plasma science instrument—responsible for tracking the flow of charged ...

In the vast expanse of interstellar space, Voyager 1 continues its extraordinary journey, defying expectations and pushing ...

No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space, the region outside the heliosphere. The plasma science instrument measures the amount of plasma (electrically charged atoms ...

By scavenging backup systems and disabling non-essential systems, NASA has managed to keep five of its ten instruments active as the probe entered interstellar space, but mission managers had to ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced that it has now turned off the iconic plasma science instrument, which confirmed that the probe had left the heliosphere and entered interstellar ...

These problems will only grow over the next few years, as the plutonium-powered systems that power the two spacecraft slowly run out of juice. In order to postpone the moment when the spacecraft ...