"drifting through space" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a person, object, or concept moving or traveling through outer space without a clear direction or purpose. Example: The astronaut marveled at the beauty of the Earth as he drifted through space in his small spacecraft.
External layers of the star are forced outwards, drifting through space for thousands of years.
The pod people work together to secretly spread more pods — which grew from "seeds drifting through space for years" — in order to replace the entire human race.
Such positrons are produced by what researchers call secondary sources mainly collisions between the protons contained in cosmic rays and atoms drifting through space.
The molasses, called the Higgs field, is normally undetectable except as the source of mass for all ordinary particles drifting through space, from the quarks that make up protons, neutrons, planets and bowling balls, to electrons and neutrinos.
When the action abruptly switches to an unnamed island in the Dodecanese, we discover that disaffected Japanese urbanites are not really any happier there.As for the title, what better metaphor for modern life, at least in Murakami-land, than solitary satellites drifting through space?
SAGAMIHARA, JAPAN Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft failed to enter its planned orbit around Venus yesterday and is now drifting through space.
In analogy to the error threshold in sequence space the phenotypic error threshold separates two scenarios: (i) a stationary (fittest) master shape surrounded by closely related shapes and (ii) populations drifting through shape space by a diffusion-like process.
Letting their arms float and drift through space, she and Peter Boal, a guest artist from the New York City Ballet, moved in an unhurried manner to a recorded score by Lou Harrison.
Those jumping field lines thread galaxies, rise in vast arches above the Sun and drift through space on the solar wind.
This plot turn is handled with a minimum of sentimentality, and it provides a moment of surreal beauty as the children drift through space on airships fashioned out of carnival rides.
