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In this paper, we investigate the decay properties of the thermoelastic Timoshenko system with past history in the whole space where the thermal effects are given by Cattaneo and Fourier laws. We obtain that both systems, Timoshenko–Fourier and Timoshenko–Cattaneo, have the same rate of decay (1+t)−14 and the regularity‐loss‐type property is not present in some cases. Moreover, new stability number χ is introduced, such new number controls the decay rate of the solution with respect to the regularity of the initial data. To prove our results, we use the energy method in Fourier space to build an appropriate Lyapunov functionals that give the desired results.