Water in Space: What Happens?

How one of the most interesting molecules on Earth behaves in the zero-gravity, zero-pressure environment of outer space.

Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang!
6 min readJan 11, 2014

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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water

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Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang!

The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.