"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.
To save energy for further interstellar exploration ... After all, the two spacecraft have traveled a combined 29 billion miles to become the farthest human-built objects from Earth.
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...
For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars, in 2012, and Voyager 2 did the same in 2018. The probes took different trajectories. Voyager 1 is traveling up away from the ...
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