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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...