In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its instruments.
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space ...
The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. The Voyager ...
The data came from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA's XMM-Newton. Previously, scientists discovered that a ...
The 50th birthday is a must, but the Voyager probes should ideally continue to work into the 2030s. To achieve this, however, ...
The Kuiper Belt is a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early solar system. Over 3,000 KBOs have ...
Despite these power reductions, both Voyagers still have three functioning instruments collecting data on the Sun's ...
Why Nasa is switching off instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft - The twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977 ...
NASA is shutting down a science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power and sustain the 47-year-old spacecraft’s mission in ...
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...