interstellar space
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If you were starting today, going to the moon or anywhere beyond, and especially into interstellar space, would be a job for robots and, often, exclusively robots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
"All types of amino acids bond into peptides through the same reaction. It is, therefore, very likely that other peptides naturally form in interstellar space as well," says Hopkinson.
From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026
"We think there's a two-thirds chance this comet is older than the solar system, and that it's been drifting through interstellar space ever since."
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
The telescope, with its fellow Maunakea resident the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, discovered that Earth is basking in light from excited molecules living quietly in interstellar space.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024
Any civilization able to intercept Voyager in the depths of interstellar space, its transmitters long dead, would know far more science than we do.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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