: space immediately outside the earth's atmosphere
broadly: interplanetary or interstellar space
Example Sentences
a satellite in outer space Is there life in outer space?
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Word History
First Known Use
1842, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
outer space
noun
: the region beyond earth's atmosphere and especially beyond the solar system