are there atoms in space?

Answer 1

There are atoms in space. Closer to objects with gravity, the atoms become more and more populus, but even in the deepest reaches of deep space, there are still atoms. They are very widely scattered and you may find only 1 atom every meter or so, but they are still there.
Atoms are constantly being ejected from stars like the sun in the form of the solar wind (or stellar wind if you prefer). They are left behind in the tails of comets and floating meteors and dust.
If you go out on a dark night about an hour or two before sunrise, you will see dozens of meteors burning up as they hit the earth. Each meteor contains billions of atoms. If they weren't in space, we would not see them when they hit the atomosphere.

Answer 2

The first answer that there are atoms in space but very far from our planet is incorrect. Space is not really empty space; it contains wildly-oscillating hydrogen atoms and other thinly-spread gas and dust.

I'm not even sure a true vacuum exists, where not even photons, neutrinos, etc. occupy the space....even a black hole contains a singular point of incredibly dense mass (which creates the irresistable gravitational pull)...

If there were a true vacuum somewhere in the universe, and it's true that "nature abhors a vacuum", then something would probably rush to fill that space immediately, e.g., neighboring sub-atomic particles.

Answer 3

Of course. Atoms are the building blocks of everything that has a mass. Every asteroid, planet, star, comet etc is made up of atoms, ergo, there are atoms in space.

Answer 4

Where there is matter, there are atoms.
In outer space, particularly in vacuum, there are no atoms, because there is no matter - no solids, no liquids, no gases.
But stars are made of highly compressed gases, and planets are undoubtedly solids, hence they contain atoms.
However, regions in space that contain gases like He or H obviously contain atoms of their respective elements. (This is less likely because space doesn't have gases flowing around)

Answer 5

Very few ,in fact there is so few that when NASA puts a space craft up they don't put glass covers over the tube elements saving many pounds . The Traveling Wave Tube used to amplify microwave works just fine without a glass cover.

Answer 6

yes, there is atom in the space but they are far from our planet