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 ...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments after a power reduction ...

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

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

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 ...

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NASA has received a signal from the Voyager 2 spacecraft that it accidentally lost contact with on July 21. Communications with the famous spacecraft, which launched in 1977 and is currently around 12 ...

On December 18, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 entered interstellar space while traveling at 38,000 miles per hour. Now over 12 billion miles/20 billion kilometers from Earth, Voyager 2 was reckoned by NASA ...

Forty years ago, NASA scientist Linda Spilker started sleeping at the office. It was her first job out of college, but she wasn’t camping out because she was over-worked and chained to her desk.