NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...

New insights from Voyager 2 suggest Uranus' moon Miranda may have housed a deep ocean, shaping its unique features.

Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now ...

Voyager 2, as well as other spacecraft exploring our solar system. Voyager 1 then sends back engineering data to show how it is responding to the commands. It takes about 23 hours for a message to ...

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 ...

NASA has powered down the plasma science instrument on Voyager 2, launched 47 years ago, to conserve power as it continues its journey through interstellar space, 13 billion miles from Earth.

What just happened? NASA has remotely disabled one of the science instruments on its Voyager 2 spacecraft in response to the probe's dwindling energy supply. The space agency had hoped to keep all ...

Communicating with Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, isn't simple. Voyager 1, which is currently more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, is the most distant ...

Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Voyager 1's fault protection system can be triggered for a number of reasons, such as if the spacecraft overdraws its power ...

Communicating with Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, isn't simple. Voyager 1, which is currently more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, is the most distant ...