The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

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

NASA has powered down Voyager 1’s Low-Energy Charged Particles instrument to conserve energy as the probe’s nuclear power source continues to weaken. The April 17 shutdown, nearly 23 hours in ...

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...

Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object from Earth, shut down one of its three remaining instruments as NASA worked to ...

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

NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent ...

NASA engineers are working to keep the Voyager mission alive as it cruises through interstellar space, opting to shut down ...

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument.

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

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