What it takes to keep NASA’s flagship Chandra Observatory flying for a quarter of a century

For the past 25 years, NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray Observatory recorded X-ray emissions from exploding stars, supermassive black holesgalaxy clusters and other exotic, high-energy pockets of our universe, allowing scientists…

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Before plunging to its death, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn’s moon Titan

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft may have dramatically ended its 20-year mission to explore Saturn's surroundings seven years ago when it plunged into the gas giant, but it's still delivering the science…

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