interstellar space
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
As the radio waves cross interstellar space, however, they do not travel unimpeded.
From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 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
![]()
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.