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
"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
Voyager 2 crossed the border to interstellar space in 2018.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2024
Somewhere in the cold interstellar space between our sun and the closest stars, its flight data system stopped communicating with the part of the probe that allows it to send signals back to Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024
The light by which we see it now has spent seventy-five years traversing the dark of interstellar space on its long journey to Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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