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 ...

I’m looking at a microbe that behaves like a sci‑fi monster: it can shut itself down, slip past some of the cleanest rooms on Earth, and then “wake up” again when conditions improve. NASA’s discovery ...

A bacterial species found in spacecraft clean rooms can survive intensive antimicrobial cleaning by going dormant, new research finds. That’s important because other clean-room survivors had been ...

To build a spacecraft, you need an extremely clean construction zone. That’s essential if you’re sending a robot to another world to search for signs of microscopic alien life. One wouldn’t want to ...