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

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

On April 17, 2026, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a command across 15 billion miles of space to shut down one of ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is one step closer to the end of its scientific road. NASA turned off one of its three ...

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On April 17, 2026, NASA sent a command to Voyager 1 that took nearly 23 hours to arrive. When it did, the spacecraft’s Low ...

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 watts of energy per year.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. May 23, 2024, 11:53am EDT An illustration shows a Voyager spacecraft in ...

NASA has made the difficult decision to shut off another instrument on Voyager 1. Here's what's next for the furthest manmade ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Voyager 1 has finally returned usable data ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less ...