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.

On April 17, 2026, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a command across 15 billion miles of space to shut down one of ...

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

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

NASA has made the difficult decision to shut off another instrument on Voyager 1. Here's what's next for the furthest manmade ...

In the silent, freezing expanse of interstellar space, a small spacecraft launched in the era of disco and analog tape has just achieved a feat once thought to belong only to science fiction. NASA’s ...

Originally launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object (that we know of) in the universe. Voyager 1 continues to ...

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

Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object from Earth, shut down one of its three remaining instruments as NASA worked to ...

"While shutting down a science instrument is not anybody's preference, it is the best option available." The post NASA Shuts ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory deactivated the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1. The shutdown was ...