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, ...

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 ...

Any fan of television medical dramas knows that operating rooms must be sterile. You don’t have to be a doctor, or even play one on TV, to “scrub in” before entering the cleanroom high bays at JPL.