Space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. Space, SPACE, spacing, or The Space may also refer to:

Acronyms

Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo The Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo, or SPACE or S.P.A.C.E., is an annual Convention (meeting), convention in Columbus, Ohio, United States, for alternative comics, minicomics, and webcomics. Bob Corby founded the convention as a gathering ...

, an annual comic book convention * Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE), located in Trivandrum, Kerala, India * Spectroscopic All Sky Cosmic Explorer, a proposed satellite designed to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film and television

Films

* ''Space'' (1965 film) * ''Space'', a 1997 short film starring

Karyn Dwyer Karyn Dwyer (born Karyn Elizabeth Dwyer; 22 March 1975 – 25 September 2018) was a Canadian actress, whose best known role was as Maggie in the 1999 film ''Better Than Chocolate''. Early life Dwyer was the oldest of five children, three sons ...

TV series

* ''Space'' (2001 TV series), a 2001 BBC production * ''Space'' (miniseries), a 1985 TV miniseries based on the Michener book * '' Space: 1999'', a television show * '' Space: Above and Beyond'', an American TV series * "Space" (''The X-Files''), an episode of the TV series * "Space", an episode of the Adult Swim television series, ''

Off the Air In the broadcasting industry, a dark television station or silent radio station is one that has gone off the air for an indefinite period of time. Usually unlike dead air (broadcasting only silence), a station that is dark or silent does not eve ...

'' * "Space" and "Time", two mini ''Doctor Who'' episodes

TV channels

Space (Canadian TV channel) CTV Sci-Fi Channel is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel primarily broadcasts speculative fiction and related programming. The network was launched on October 17, 1997 as Space under its original pare ...

Space (Latin American TV channel) Space is a Latin American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It airs movies, TV series and boxing events. It was launched on 11 March 1991 and it is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This television network is aimed a ...

* Space TV, an Azerbaijani television channel

Games

* ''Space'' (role-playing game series), a computer role-playing game series from Edu-Ware ** ''Space I'' (1979 videogame) ** ''Space II'' (1980 videogame) * Space or square, a location in a

board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a comp ...

Literature

* ''Space'' (Michener novel), a 1982 novel by James A. Michener *

Space (Baxter novel) ''Manifold: Space'' is a science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter, first published in the United Kingdom in 2000, then released in the United States in 2001. It is the second book of the ''Manifold'' series and examines another p ...

, a 2000 novel by Stephen Baxter

Music

Groups and labels

Space (French band) Space (occasionally Didier Marouani & Space), are a French music band active from 1977 through 1980 and returning with on-stage remake performances since 1982. Their work is associated with the short-lived space disco genre and is a precursor ...

, a 1970s French electronic music band *

Space (English band) Space are a band from Liverpool, England, who formed in 1992 initially as a trio of Tommy Scott (vocals, bass, guitar), Jamie Murphy (vocals, guitar) and Jamie Island (drums), who was later replaced by Andy Parle. Keyboard player Franny Grif ...

, a 1990s English indie rock band *

The Tremeloes The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, England. They initially found success in the British Invasion era with lead singer Brian Poole, scoring a UK chart-topper in 1963 with "Do You Love Me". After Poole's departu ...

, an English band who briefly used the name "Space" on some mid-1970s releases

Albums

* ''Space'' (The Arrogant Worms album), 2014 * ''Space'' (Bleach album), 1996 * ''Space'' (The Devil Wears Prada EP), 2015 * ''Space'' (George Benson album), 1978 * ''Space'' (KSI EP), 2016 * ''Space'' (Jimmy Cauty album), 1990 * ''Space'' (Modern Jazz Quartet album), 1969

Songs

* "Space", a 2020 song by

Becky Hill Rebecca Claire Hill (born 14 February 1994) is a British singer from Bewdley, England. She rose to prominence after appearing on the first series of the then BBC (now ITV) talent contest ''The Voice UK'', auditioning with John Legend's "Ordin ...

* "Space" (M.I.A. song), a song by M.I.A. from her 2010 album ''Maya'' * "Space" (Prince song), a song by Prince from his 1994 album ''Come'' * "Space" (Slavko Kalezić song), a song by Slavko Kalezić as Montenegro's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 * "Space", a 1979 song by

Alessi Brothers The Alessi Brothers, also known as Alessi, are an American pop rock singer-songwriter duo who first came to international prominence with their 1977 hit single "Oh Lori". The duo are identical twin brothers, Billy and Bobby Alessi (born July 12 ...

* "Space", a 1968 song by The Blackbirds * "Space", a 1989 song by

Candy Flip Candy Flip were a British electronic music duo from Stoke on Trent, who were associated with the indie dance music scene in the early 1990s (a scene more commonly known as Madchester or baggy). They are best remembered for their cover versio ...

* "Space", a 1978 song by

Franck Pourcel Franck Pourcel (14 August 1913 – 12 November 2000) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor of popular and classical music. Biography Early life Born in Marseille, France, Pourcel started learning the violin at the age of six. Later, ...

and His Orchestra * "Space", a 1967 guitar piece by

Gábor Szabó Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Early years Szabó was born in Budapest, Hungary. He began playing guitar at the age ...

* "Space", an improvisational song performed by the

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...

* "Space", a 1986 song by

It's Immaterial It's Immaterial are an English indie pop band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1980. They are best known for their 1986 single " Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)", which reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. Career It's Immaterial ...

* "Space", a 1991 song by

New Model Army The New Model Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660. It differed from other armies employed in the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Th ...

* "Space", a 2007 song by

Sarah Buxton Sarah Jane Buxton (born July 3, 1980) is an American country music singer, formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records. Between 2006 and 2008, she issued three singles from an extended play titled '' Almost My Record'', in addition t ...

* "Space", a 2011 song by singer-songwriter

Norman Bedard Norman Joseph Bédard (born July 30, 1962), also known by the former stage names Norman Iceberg and Norman Joseph, is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Early years: Performing as Norman Iceberg A graphic artist turned performance artist, Norman Bed ...

* "Space", a 2003 song by Something Corporate from ''

North North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating Direction (geometry), direction or geography. Etymology T ...

'' * "Space", a 2016 song by Sabrina Carpenter from ''

Evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

'' * "Space", a 2020 song by Biffy Clyro from ''

A Celebration of Endings ''A Celebration of Endings'' is the eighthThe band referred to the album using the working title ''Opus 8''. This numbering does not include the soundtrack album ''Balance, Not Symmetry'' from 2019. See also: Biffy Clyro discography studio albu ...

Venues

* Evanston SPACE, a concert hall in the United States * Space, a performance venue of the

National Institute of Dramatic Art The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cat ...

, Sydney, Australia *

Space (Ibiza nightclub) Space (, , ) was a superclub on the island of Ibiza, Spain from 1986 to 2016, owned by STANCA. It was awarded "Best Global Club" at the International Dance Music Awards in 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Space was located in Platja d'en Bossa ...

, a nightclub in Spain *

Space (studios) Space studios, founded by Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley in 1968, is the oldest continuously operating artist studio organisation in London. In addition to providing studios to artists across the city, ''Space'' operates a recognised exhibition p ...

, an artist studio organisation in London, England *

Space Theatre (Cape Town) The Space Theatre (also called the Space, ''Die Ruimte'' in Afrikaans, The Peoples' Space and reincarnated as the New Space Theatre in 2008) was a fringe theatre in Cape Town, South Africa which was active in the 1970s. It re-opened in late 2008. ...

, in South Africa * Space Theatre, within the

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia's first multi-purpose arts centre and the home of South Australia's performing arts, was built in the 1970s, designed by Hassell Architects. The Festival Theatre opened in June 1973 with the rest of the centr ...

, Australia *

The Space (theatre) The Space is an arts space in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs, London. Its principal patron is Sir Ian McKellen, and it is a registered non-profit making charity. History The Space is located inside a former Presbyterian church. Dedicated to St ...

, an arts venue in London, England * The Space Cinema, cinema chain in Italy, now owned by Vue International

Computing, keyboard, and printing

Address space In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity. For software programs to save and retrieve st ...

, and various hyponyms (data, code, virtual address spaces etc.) * Code space of a character set, the range of

code point In character encoding terminology, a code point, codepoint or code position is a numerical value that maps to a specific character. Code points usually represent a single grapheme—usually a letter, digit, punctuation mark, or whitespace—but ...

s *

Cyberspace Cyberspace is a concept describing a widespread interconnected digital technology. "The expression dates back from the first decade of the diffusion of the internet. It refers to the online world as a world 'apart', as distinct from everyday rea ...

DSPACE DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document managem ...

, a term in computational complexity theory *

Space (punctuation) In writing, a space () is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are c ...

, the gap between text characters (in typography) *

Space bar The space bar is on the bottom center of the keyboard The space bar, spacebar, blank, or space key is a key on a typewriter or alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than all other keys. ...

, part of a computer keyboard * A telecommunications signal state: see

Mark and space Mark and space are terms used in telecommunications to describe two different signal states of a communications signal, generally at the physical layer of a communications system. The terms derive from the early days of the electric telegraph syst ...

* XML and HTML character entities: **

Em space An em (from English '' em quadrat'') is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is 16 points. Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given point s ...

En space An en (from English ''en quad, en quadrat'') is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em (typography), em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the Body height (typography), body height of the typeface (e.g., in 16-point (typography) ...

Non-breaking space In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space, , also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (though it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. In s ...

Thin space In typography, a thin space is a space character whose width is usually or of an em. It is used to add a narrow space, such as between nested quotation marks or to separate glyphs that interfere with one another. It is not as narrow as the hair ...

*Other space characters available in

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...

: **

Figure space A figure space or numeric space is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single numerical digit. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which font is being used. This is the preferred space to use in numbers. It has the same width as a d ...

Hair space In computer programming, whitespace is any character or series of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character does not correspond to a visible mark, but typically does occupy an area ...

Zero-width space The zero-width space , abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries to text-processing systems in scripts that do not use explicit spacing, or after characters (such as the slash) that a ...

People

Arthur Space Charles Arthur Space (October 12, 1908 – January 13, 1983) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was best known as Doc Weaver, the veterinarian, in thirty-nine episodes of the CBS television series ''Lassie''. Early years Born ...

(1908–1983), American actor *

Zack Space Zachary T. Space (born January 27, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician and the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in Congress, Space became a lobbyist and w ...

(born 1961), former United States Representative * SPACE (gamer) (born 2000), professional ''Overwatch'' player

Science and mathematics

Outer space Outer space, commonly shortened to space, is the expanse that exists beyond Earth and its atmosphere and between celestial bodies. Outer space is not completely empty—it is a near-perfect vacuum containing a low density of particles, pred ...

, or just space, the area beyond the limit of the Earth's atmosphere *

Space (mathematics) In mathematics, a space is a set (sometimes called a universe) with some added structure. While modern mathematics uses many types of spaces, such as Euclidean spaces, linear spaces, topological spaces, Hilbert spaces, or probability spaces, i ...

, a set with some added structure *

Space.com Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom. The website offers live coverage of space missions, astronomical discov ...

, a space technology website * Aether, a hypothetical physical medium (space-filling substance) that transmits electromagnetic waves and/or gravitation *

Solution space In mathematical optimization, a feasible region, feasible set, search space, or solution space is the set of all possible points (sets of values of the choice variables) of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's constraints, poten ...

, the set of all possible candidate solutions in an optimization problem *

Spatium {{set index article In anatomy, a spatium or anatomic space is a space (cavity or gap). Anatomic spaces are often landmarks to find other important structures. When they fill with gases (such as air) or liquids (such as blood) in pathological ways, ...

or anatomic space, a space (cavity or gap) in anatomy

Society and psychology

Mental space The mental space is a theoretical construct proposed by Gilles Fauconnier corresponding to possible worlds in truth-conditional semantics. The main difference between a mental space and a possible world is that a mental space does not contain a fa ...

, a term in cognitive science *

Personal space Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction. Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study of nonverbal communication, including haptics ...

* Space (architecture), one of the elements of design of architecture *

Public space A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public. Roads (including the pavement), public squares, parks, and beaches are typically considered public space. To a limited extent, government buildings which are open to ...

Social space A social space is physical or virtual space such as a social center, online social media, or other gathering place where people gather and interact. Some social spaces such as town squares or parks are public places; others such as pubs, websites ...

Urban space An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, ...