The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

Last October, to conserve energy, the project turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument, which measures the amount of plasma—electrically charged atoms—and the direction it is flowing.

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...

NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are ...

NASA is turning off more science instruments on its Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes that could help extend the life of the ...

Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument will shut off on March 24. This leaves each probe with three functioning science instruments. When they launched weeks apart in 1977 ...

An illustration of the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring space beyond the solar system. | Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that ...