A bit morbid but fascinating notheless...............
I could see a lot of interesting adventure twists coming from some type of scenario discussed in the article.
Potential Adventure seed
Here's another really interesting, real life space "mystery"
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/11/3d-models-shed-some-light-on-beagle-2-landers-fate
Im sure some imaginative GMs could cook something up with this.
Crashed probe is a very easy plot hook to build around.
The empire sent out 1,000s of probe droids when searching for the rebel base but less than 10% of them failed to report back (it's a harsh galaxy). It was too many for the empire to waste the ship's/troopers it would take to reclaim them all so the empire posted a bounty on the missing probe droids, revealing the target systems to a select few salvage organizations.
The PC's are a crew working for one of the salvage companies tasked with travelling to exotic and dangerous locations to find the missing droids, until one day they stumble upon....
Corpses/spores from another star system are a good plot hook.
It reminds me of how the bugs in steamship troopers would fire asteroids between star systems. Maybe an asteroid impacts a populated planet and infects the survivors within range of the impact crater. The only way to find a cure in time is to track the asteroid back to its source system and get a pure sample of the virus.
You could replace corpse with dead spaceship.
An alien ship enters the solar system and will crash into the sun, attempts to stop the ship with a tractor beam have failed because the strange alloy it is made from appears to be resistant to gravity. If salvaged this ship could be the key to building ship's that could be immune to tractor beams and interdictors, possibly even opening up new hyperspace lanes previously closed due to gravitational anomalies. An expendable crew must board the ship and save it before it burns up.
Here's another.......who knows what lies beneath that crushed ice, only very recently discovered...........any adventurers willing to take the chance to see what it is???
How about designing an "android only" modular encounter/adventure where the group plays a party of androids like today's Curiosity Rover and they are sent to a distant planet to get feedback of the planet..........I think that could be a lot of fun.
I just don't think the universe gets the due respect it should as a potential adventure site. It seems like space is just a backdrop in the SW RPG when it could be so so much more.