deep space
noun
: space well outside the earth's atmosphere and especially that part lying beyond the earth-moon system
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All of this will set the groundwork for future lunar habitats, serving as a stepping stone for deep space exploration.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself, bending and distorting the light of even more distant galaxies behind them.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The rocket arced on a trajectory heading east from Florida's Space Coast, shed its reusable first stage booster for a landing offshore, then fired its upper stage engine twice to propel the trio of missions into deep space.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
With in-house hosting of workflows, automation of satellite standards research, and a range of important visual dashboards, Oligo makes the user the captain of deep space pioneering and design.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself, bending and distorting the light of even more distant galaxies behind them.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
The rocket arced on a trajectory heading east from Florida's Space Coast, shed its reusable first stage booster for a landing offshore, then fired its upper stage engine twice to propel the trio of missions into deep space.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
With in-house hosting of workflows, automation of satellite standards research, and a range of important visual dashboards, Oligo makes the user the captain of deep space pioneering and design.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Deep space.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep%20space. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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