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Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's gradually shrinking electrical power supply. Traveling more than 12.8 billion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe some of the most distant and ancient galaxies now it is in its new home, in orbit around the sun. Although it will be several months before it ...

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Voyager 2 launched into space on Aug. 20, ...

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The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The time has finally come to switch off one of the instruments aboard one of the greatest ongoing scientific achievements of the human race. NASA ...