But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The place is known as the Clean Room, or sometimes the ...

The giant, 40-ft. space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust ...

The core portion of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme ...

It is photographed here in the largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where engineers are inspecting it upon delivery. The bus rests atop an aluminum ring that will ...

"The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars." In a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scientists ...

A closer view of the full-scale prototype LISA telescope in a clean room at NASA Goddard. The telescope’s translucent, amber-colored material glows as an engineer behind it inspects the ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

The prototype LISA telescope undergoes post-delivery inspection in a darkened NASA Goddard clean room on May 20. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, led by the European Space ...