Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

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

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

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and cosmic rays ...

Space is *** very big place for real, and one of the biggest goals of humanity over the course of the last few decades is the concept of us sending things out into the Earth's orbit or into the ...

This data was essential to knowing when Voyager 1 exited the heliosphere—thus achieving one of many historic firsts—back in 2012. NASA turned off the cosmic ray subsystem on Feb. 25 ...

Now, researchers have developed a new model that suggests the inner structure ... million miles (1.6 million kilometers) a day, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft won't reach the Oort cloud for 300 ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, and will shut off the low-energy charged particle instrument aboard ...

According to NASA, Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles. The space agency continues to receive data from both space probes through the Deep ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes are reaching the end of their service lives. NASA announced that ...

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 ...