There was a time when you could find spacecraft clean rooms in two sizes – – big and bigger. After all, these harsh-white, sterile environments have to handle very large spacecraft, support equipment, ...

Life, as they say, finds a way — even in the most sterile places on Earth. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

A rare microorganism could escape Earth’s most stringent spacecraft clean rooms and infiltrate space — or another planet — by using this spooky trick. It plays dead. Microbiologists at the University ...

The tiniest life forms are sometimes the strongest of them all—that is, they’ll survive anywhere and do everything they can to stay alive. Apparently, this even includes faking their own death. In ...

The clean rooms used to prep NASA's Phoenix Mars lander for launch were not as clean as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...