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

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 ...

After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another ...

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

NASA's Voyager 1 was launched almost 49 years ago and is still actively travelling through deep space, currently over 15 ...

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

The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is one step closer to the end of its scientific road. NASA turned off one of its three ...

NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes. A few details about the plan appear in an April 17 NASA announcement ...

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

The instrument was used to measure low-energy charged particles, including ions, electrons, cosmic rays originating from our ...

NASA has shut down a major science instrument aboard Voyager 1 as the spacecraft faces declining power nearly five decades ...

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