Can we ever explain space?

I have always found space interesting. I've heard many times, people saying, "space has to end somewhere." My mother says, "space has to be IN something, it can't be contained in nothing." But, is that really true? I look at it this way. We as people have created what we call logic. This logic is what we have come up with to explain things that surround us here on earth. However, I don't think it's true that we should expect to apply this 'logic' to other places, such as space, a place we as people really have no understanding of other than 'guesses.' Referring back to what I stated I've heard people say about 'space has to end....' Well this is how I see it, plain and simple. When we say the word 'nothing,' it's being used to describe the fact that there is an absence of something. But, that 'something' that is not there is always contained in something. For example...if we say, "there is nothing in that box," we are saying the box is empty, this describes the absence of something 'in' the box, that absence being in 'something', a box. Everything is contained in something, a chair is in a room, a house is on a street, a bird is in the sky ect....We can never have the existence of something in nothing can we? The chair is not sitting in the middle of nothing...we always have a word to describe the place in which it sits. We have even given a name to space. In my thinking, space IS nothing. It contains planets and stars and other anomolys but all in all I think that space is the place that defys our logic here on earth. Whereas we say there is nothing in there but there cannot be something in nothing, in space, there are many things in a nothing. There are many things, including us here on earth contained in nothing, space that never ends, a concept that we cannot grasp and perhaps will never be able to find out the true meaning.