NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

Nasa announced on Wednesday that it will turn off another science instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft later this month to conserve power. This follows last week's shutdown of a similar instrument ...

NASA has switched off further systems on Voyager 1 and 2. In doing so, the US space agency wants to extend the mission of the two probes and ensure that they are still active on the 50th ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

To conserve this power, NASA operators turned off Voyager 2's plasma science experiment in October 2024. The experiment aimed to measure how much plasma flows past it and in what direction.

So far, Voyager 2 has traveled 12.8 billion miles away from Earth, and throughout its journey, it used several scientific instruments to measure the giant planets in the 1980s.

NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home.

The command was sent to turn off Voyager 2’s plasma science instrument on September 26, but the spacecraft is now so far away that it took 19 hours for the signal to leave Earth and arrive at ...

NASA turned off a suite of instruments on Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 after they explored the gas giant planets in the 1980s. Both are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars.