Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's ...

The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument — designed to measure the flow of charged atoms — ...

NASA turned off a suite of instruments on Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 after they explored the gas giant planets in the ...

The plasma experiment had been gathering limited data. NASA expects the Voyager 2 spacecraft will continue operating with ...

NASA has decided to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining instruments—yet another sign that the space probes may be nearing the end of their historic missions. In an October 1 announcement, the ...

On September 26, NASA engineers issued the command to turn off the plasma instrument, which took 19 hours to reach the distant probe and another 19 hours for it to return a signal. NASA confirmed that ...

NASA's Voyager 2 has turned off its PLS instrument to save energy after 47 years in space, with MIT reflecting on the mission ...

Voyager 2 is now 20.5 billion kilometers away from Earth. One instrument has now been switched off so that it can collect ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. It's currently more than 12 billion miles (19 ...

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled further away from Earth than any other human-made object, sending back useful ...

NASA has announced the decision to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining instruments, signaling the potential nearing of ...

Reintroduced to the broader public after a few years as a fleet exclusive, the Voyager is just an entry-level Pacifica with a ...