How do long range space probes not crash into things?

Question

How do long range space probes like Voyager 1 anticipate traveling through space for hundreds or thousands of years without hitting something, getting pulled into something’s gravity and crashing, etc?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

The sun is 99.86% of the solar system by mass. Jupiter is around 0.095% and Saturn is 0.0285%

So if you can avoid those three youve avoided 99.99% of everything in the solar system.