In 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on what would become a more than 4-decade odyssey to explore the outer planets and beyond. Along the way, the spacecraft made ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft ...

Last October, to conserve energy, the project turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument, which measures the amount of plasma—electrically charged atoms—and the direction it is flowing.

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