Space is sometimes described as a vacuum better than mankind could create in any laboratory. But it is not a vacuum, but a tenuous plasma carrying the interplanetary medium (solar wind). It is also structured, forming the Heliospheric current sheet.

This means that space has the characteristics of a plasma. It is electrically conductive, carries magnetic fields, and carries energy from the sun resulting from coronal mass ejections that interact with the Earth's magnetic fields to produce the aurora, and can sometimes knock out the power to cities (eg. The Quebec Blackout)

Space is sometimes described as a vacuum better than mankind could create in any laboratory. But it is not a vacuum, but a tenuous plasma carrying the interplanetary medium (solar wind). It is also structured, forming the Heliospheric current sheet.

This means that space has the characteristics of a plasma. It is electrically conductive, carries magnetic fields, and carries energy from the sun resulting from coronal mass ejections that interact with the Earth's magnetic fields to produce the aurora, and can sometimes knock out the power to cities (eg. The Quebec Blackout)

The Solar Wind drags the Earth's magnetosphere out into space forming its magnetotail. It is the same principle as a "magnetic sail". The drag is small, but significant if you are an ion in space.