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

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

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

Despite these power reductions, both Voyagers still have three functioning instruments collecting data on the Sun's ...

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

Veteran probes close in on the half century More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers ...

This leaves each probe with three functioning science instruments. But over time, the probes’ power supply has gradually diminished. The Voyager spacecraft rely on electricity generated from the ...

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

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable ...