Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space.

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...

“While shutting down a science instrument is not anybody’s preference, it is the best option available,” said Kareem ...