interstellar space

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A much slower response would involve chemically propelled rockets, like Voyager 1 and 2 or New Horizons, which our civilization has sent on trajectories that are taking them out into interstellar space.

From Scientific American

Technological debris could have accumulated in interstellar space over the past billions of years, just as plastic bottles have accumulated on the surface of the ocean.

From Scientific American

Cornell research scientist Shami Chatterjee said in a press statement that evolving knowledge of the density in interstellar space is important information to track.

From Salon

It must also have been quite dry, as any water, which is naturally enriched in heavy hydrogen during its formation in interstellar space, would have raised the overall deuterium levels.

From Science Magazine

Since the farthest rocks are loosely bound to their parent star, they can be easily dislodged into interstellar space by the gravitational disturbance of a passing star.

From Scientific American