The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less to use ...

In a remarkable turn of events, NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has detected a faint but significant carrier signal from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, raising hopes that the probe may still be operational ...

Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles from Earth, drifting through space with no fuel, no control, and no way back. Within the ...

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NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, both running on nuclear power, now have access to just a portion of the 470 ...

NASA has received a signal from the Voyager 2 spacecraft that it accidentally lost contact with on July 21. Communications with the famous spacecraft, which launched in 1977 and is currently around 12 ...

A routine sequence of commands has triggered a 2-degree change in Voyager 2’s antenna orientation, preventing the iconic spacecraft from receiving commands or transmitting data back to Earth, NASA ...

On December 18, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 entered interstellar space while traveling at 38,000 miles per hour. Now over 12 billion miles/20 billion kilometers from Earth, Voyager 2 was reckoned by NASA ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less ...

After crossing the boundary of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft began detecting changes scientists had never measured before. Their instruments recorded shifts in particles, ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.