Inside rooms designed to be among the most sterile places on Earth, scientists have just cataloged 26 forms of life that no one had ever seen before. The discovery inside NASA spacecraft facilities ...

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 ...

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 ...