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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Curiosity rover is prepared for launch in the clean room at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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 ...