NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument on Voyager 2 as part of efforts to conserve ... "If we don't turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they probably only ...

Launched in 1977 to study the large outer planets, Voyager 1 and 2 are now, respectively, more than 13 billion and 11 billion miles from Earth, exploring the outer boundary of the heliosphere—a ...

The latest data comes courtesy of the Plasma Wave Science instrument aboard Voyager 2, now 11 billion miles away. The measurements illustrate that even “beyond the heliopause the sun can still ...

"A big piece of evidence against there being oceans on Uranus's moons was the lack of detection of any water-related particles around the planet Voyager 2 didn't find water ions. But now we can ...