An ambitious effort to boost an aging probe on its journey through the uncharted territory of interstellar space seems to have found success. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA engineers have found a way to extend Voyager 2’s mission by saving enough power to keep its three remaining science ...

NASA engineers have found a way to help Voyager 2 continue its scientific mission after nearly 50 years in space, extending the spacecraft’s ability to study the environment beyond the solar system.

A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang traveled to NASA’s ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on August 4 that they had successfully completed a delicate power-management procedure aboard Voyager 2 — a simultaneous swap of multiple ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s concept, has enough power to continue operating three science instruments in interstellar space longer than anticipated thanks to some clever ...