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.

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

At present, Voyager 2 is more than 12.8 million miles from Earth. It takes just over 19 hours for signals sent by NASA to reach the probe, and another 19 hours to get a return signal.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

The system of radio antennas on Earth helps the agency communicate with Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, as well as other spacecraft exploring our solar system. Voyager 1 then sends back ...

NASA has successfully reconnected with the Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief interruption in communications. The spacecraft is now using a transmitter that has not been used for communications since ...

The system of radio antennas on Earth helps the agency communicate with Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, as well as ...

Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal (and) is significantly fainter." Voyager 2 has also experienced ...