Does water freeze or boil in space?

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

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Here on Earth, it’s liquid all the way. But in space, that’s impossible!

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
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Rabindranath Tagore

If you brought liquid water into outer space, would it freeze or would it boil? The vacuum of space is awfully different from what we’re used to here on Earth. Where you stand now, surrounded by our atmosphere and…

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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.