spacenoun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The Earth & outer space - general words
ablate
anti-gravity
atmosphere
atmospherically
auroral
geo-
geocentric
horizon
hydrosphere
infinite
ionospheric
lithosphere
lithospheric
macrocosm
mesosphere
mesospheric
the Big Bang
underground
weightlessness
zero gravity

Examples from literature

Does it sound unlikely that spaceships full of miners may someday travel to outer space? 
The film was about creatures from outer space. 影片讲述的是来自外部空间的怪物。
They meet killers, aliens from outer space, and people who want to end the world! 

outer space | American Dictionary

outer space
noun[ U ]
us/ˈɑʊ·tər ˈspeɪs/
the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere (= the air surrounding the earth).

Examples of outer space

outer space
The large open grassy outerspace seemed ideal for daytime.
Other extreme environments include deserts, the deep sea, high mountains, the upper atmosphere, and outerspace.
Behind her, projected on to the wall, were animated images of outerspace that conveyed her descent to earth.
Lectures about extremophiles, microorganisms and problems of human presence in outerspace were also given.
Minimum ages for voting, drinking, and driving do not purport to be scientific constants such as the minimum velocity for escaping into outerspace.
One aim of the project is to gather information if pigmentation has any influence on protecting organisms against radiation in outerspace.
And as the novel progresses it becomes clear that the need to suspend disbelief is very much linked to the narrative's status of counter-history as its own ' ' outerspace.
In outerspace, there are many high-energy particles, and the irradiation is very intensive.
And the extent to which this also entails establishing the novel as an ontological ' ' outerspace' ' in itself becomes clear in the pirate narrative.
Since many artificial vehicles have entered outerspace, great interest has arisen in the study of the effects of the interactions.
Her current work concentrates on the architectures of undersea and outerspace environments.
A key step in our understanding where to search for life in outerspace is to understand the limits at which life can exist on earth.
One thinks of the mystery that might be associated with exploring outerspace (if space is infinite), or with grasping exhaustively the set of whole numbers.
They tend to work best in outerspace, where there are only a few simple objects flying around and where there is nothing to fight about.
Visible from outerspace, they form the largest biologically constructed features known: in close proximity it is impossible not to be dazzled by their spectacular beauty and abundance of life.
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