Space is REALLY big. Generally speaking, there's a lot of room between objects.

It probably has hit a few little bits of debris. It's definitely a concern for spacecraft. But, space is big, and most of the debris is dust sized.

Space is overwhelmingly voluminous and empty beyond everyday human experience. Even planets shrink to insignificance at Voyager distances.

To give an idea, look at this picture of the Earth+Moon and surrounding neighborhood, taken by Voyager 1. Even at this relatively zoomed scale, the Earth and Moon don't fill a single pixel of the camera.

Theres very little of anything to hit out there.

A key feature of space is that it's relatively empty. Especially as you get farther out.

While the Voyagers don'tt have detectors for dust impacts, I did find this from New Horizons:

> the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter only counted a single dust particle within five days of the [Pluto] flyby. This is similar to the density of dust particles in free space in the outer solar system — about 6 particles per cubic mile

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/top-new-horizons-findings-reported-in-science/

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