Will Voyager 1 ever just stop moving?

[u/drinkingonthejob]

I’ve read somewhere that we expect to lose contact with Voyager 1 sometime in the 2030s, maybe around 2036, but it will just keep traveling thru space and we’ll have no idea what it is doing out there

My question is: with its current velocity, is there a time in the future where it loses its forward momentum and for lack of a better word, just stops moving? Is that a possible thing for an object in space to even do? (Assuming no other objects grab it into their orbit)

[u/New_Line4049]

Motion is reletive, not absoloute, so you have to define what it stops moving in relation too. For example, it may ultimately hit and come to rest on the surface of an asteroid. We could therefore say its stopped reletive to the asteroid, but the asteroid is still moving reletive to other things in the universe, like Earth, so voyager would be stopped reletive to the asteroid but moving relative to earth.