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Voyager 1 is losing power, and NASA just shut down a decades-old instrument to keep it going. The sacrifice could help the ...

The shutdown is part of a long-term plan to keep Voyager 1 operating as it travels through interstellar space.

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(CNN) — Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that could buy time for an ambitious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration shows Voyager as it zips through interstellar space. - JPL-Caltech/NASA Voyager 1, the farthest ...

NASA's Voyager 1 was launched almost 49 years ago and is still actively travelling through deep space, currently over 15 billion miles away from Earth.

WASHINGTON — NASA engineers shut down another instrument on the Voyager 1 probe last week in an attempt to conserve more of the dwindling energy powering the farthest manmade object from Earth. On ...