interstellar space

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Scientists say the new results place tighter limits on existing models of particle acceleration in astrophysical sources and improve our understanding of how high-energy particles move through interstellar space.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

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

"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

By its very nature it would have produced vast quantities of radioactive debris, but for conscientious mission profiles only in the emptiness of interplanetary or interstellar space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan