NASA engineers have found a clever way to squeeze more life out of Voyager 2, nearly half a century after it left Earth. In ...

Both Voyager 1 and 2 have spent almost 49 years soaring through space. In the process, they’ve traveled further than any ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the most distant human-made object from Earth. It has traveled so far beyond the planets that its radio signals, moving at the speed of light, now take the better part ...

Voyager 2 is losing roughly 4 watts of available electrical power every year, but NASA has found enough savings to postpone ...

NASA has managed to save so much power on Voyager 2 that the remaining instruments can collect data for at least a year ...

Voyager 2 runs on radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which turn heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. That heat ...

After 49 years in space, NASA’s Voyagers are running low on power—but an audacious move should extend the tenures of the two ...

Voyager 1 is running low on power for science, but a successful energy-saving maneuver on Voyager 2 raises hope that the ...

The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped to the usual conclusions — aliens!! — in the absence of a firm ...