NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar ...

An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's ...

The switch-off command, which was transmitted to the probe at the end of September, now means that only four instruments ...

Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

Science emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the coupled Sun-Earth system that affect life and ...

The Plasma Spectrometer (PLS) has been the eyes and ears of Voyager 2, measuring the charged particles that shape our solar system and beyond.

5, 2018. It is currently 12.8 billion miles (20.5 billion kilometers) from Earth and is using four science instruments to study space beyond the heliosphere, the sun's bubble of influence around ...

“No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space, the region outside the heliosphere.” The plasma experiment consisted of a set of four “cups,” or plasma ...