Join us as we follow the incredible journey of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, a pioneering space mission that continues to push ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has hacked a backup source of power to keep Voyager 2 working. The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA file handout image from 2002 shows one of the twin Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 ...

The Voyager probes were only designed to last a few years. Nearly five decades later, they are still traveling through the ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less to use ...

For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic ...

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.

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The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

The Voyager 2 spacecraft may be out of touch with NASA until mid-October thanks to a slight mishap, but NASA engineers got some good news this afternoon in the form of a carrier signal from the ...

The LECP has been operating almost without interruption since the Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched in 1977. Meanwhile, the power output of Voyager 1's RTGs has been declining by about 4 watts per year, ...