• Question: If space wasn't cold would any animal survive in space?

    Asked by T to Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 4 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Richard Moss

      Richard Moss answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      For sure most animals we think of, will not survive as there is no air to breathe. However, there is a chance that some type of lifeforms might be able to survive if they are clinging onto “space rocks”. Most theory is based around tiny lifeforms such as bacteria.
      If you think about it, we are on a large space rock! The Earth moves through space and there is plenty of life on our rock. So we all hope there are other types of life out there. Only future exploration will get us closer to an answer.

    • Photo: Jenn Wadsworth

      Jenn Wadsworth answered on 13 Mar 2016:

      Also, one of the main obstacles even for the hardiest of microbes is the amount of harmful radiation in space. It can induce deadly mutations and even break DNA apart!

Comments