So Tiber and Cyrus were on space? How did they get there? The only people I know of that can potentially do it are the dwemer but they just poofed away.. I';; read that sword meeting when I get a chance.
They floated up there using organic balloons attached to a boat.
The Imperials use Battlespires to travel beyond Nirn.
The Altmer use Sunbirds.
And the Khajiit just climb up, because they have the sugar to do so.
My hypothesis on how they breathe and such rests on the difference between aether and space.
It is entirely possible that physics reasons why things work in this universe, do not do so in the Tamriel one.
Consider the oldest known science fiction story, written by a monk, about flying to the moon in a carriage pulled by swans.
In the frame of mind of this monk, the aether that contains lifegiving air clearly does not end at the confines of Earth and is not there by physics and biochemistry, but rather the grace of god.
Similarly the Mundus. Kyne's influence does not end with the confines of the plane(t) Kyne, but pervades the
entire Mundus.
That you can live on the moons has not so much to do with science as with mythology.
Creation is a place made for mortals to live, therefore mortals can live in creation.