Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...

Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the electricity needed to run their communications systems and science instruments. However, the farther into space you go, the ...

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

These marvelous world records of electronics focus on communications—from quantum bandwidth to longest distances.

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are ...

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

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

For nearly five decades, the twin Voyager spacecraft have pushed the boundaries of human exploration, venturing deeper into ...

NASA has confirmed it is turning off key instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, leaving just three science instruments in ...