The Voyager spacecraft, launched in the 1970s, has turned off its plasma science instrument to save power for exploring interstellar space.

Here’s how it works. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar ...

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Voyager 1 view of Saturn, taken after its close pass of the planet. (NASA/JPL) Layers of haze covering Saturn’s moon Titan are seen in this image taken by Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range ...

thanks to its striped background and the way it's framed as a piece of art. The difference here, though, is the emphasis on Voyager 1, a 3D object against a 2D backdrop. It's framed in such a way ...

Spending almost five decades in deep space has not been easy on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Age-related issues are cropping up, including a recent clogging problem in its thrusters. Now is not the ...

(CNN) — Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with ...