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 ...

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 ...