The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific devices will help it conserve energy and continue traveling toward the edge ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA's Europa Clipper made unique observations of ...

Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar spacecraft from running out of power. Voyager 1, which launched in 1977, suffered a drop in power levels that forced mission ...

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.

NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, both running on nuclear power, now have access to just a portion of the 470 ...

The LECP has been operating almost without interruption since the Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched in 1977. Meanwhile, the ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

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Nasa’s interstellar space probe Voyager 1 is losing power - US space agency says it has a ‘far-out plan’ to save the most distant human-made object in existence ...