Saturn`s moon, Titan, may be rigid, weathered ice

Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 16:23

An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn`s largest moon, Titan, has revealed that its ice shell is rigid.

Saturn: 10 interesting facts about the jewel of the solar system

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 15:46

Saturn is certainly a ‘royal’ planet, adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets around it as its jewellery and hence is also nicknamed as “the jewel of the solar system.”

NASA releases picture of Earthlings waving at Saturn

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 11:07

NASA has released a collage of people around the world waving towards the planet Saturn last month.

NASA to sell 4,100 tonne Shuttle launch platforms

Last Updated: Thursday, August 22, 2013, 23:42

NASA is selling three enormous launch platforms that were used to send the Apollo Saturn rockets and space shuttles into space, along with other items including spare tyres from space shuttle.

Mystery behind Saturn`s water ice jets revealed

Last Updated: Thursday, August 1, 2013, 09:57

NASA`s Cassini spacecraft has found that the intensity of jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn`s moon Enceladus depends on the moon`s proximity to the ringed planet.

Wave at Saturn: Earth photobombs NASA’s interplanetary photoshoot

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 15:49

Ordinary Earthlings and scientists across North America waved at Saturn, the ringed planet, on Friday as part of an interplanetary photo op.

NASA probe Cassini to photograph Earth from 1.5 bn kms away on 19 July

Last Updated: Sunday, July 14, 2013, 10:39

A camera aboard the Cassini spacecraft, currently about 1.5 billion kilometers away in the orbit of Saturn, will turn towards Earth and snap photos for about 15 minutes on 19th July.

NASA to photograph Earth from Saturn

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 16:54

NASA`s Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-colour image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system, from 1.44 billion kilometres away on July 19.

Saturn`s icy moon Dione had a watery past?

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 19:10

New images from NASA`s Cassini spacecraft show that the plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean.

Saturn moon Dione may have been active in past

Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:48

Scientists have found more evidence for the idea that Saturnian moon Dione was likely active in the past, thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the moon from NASA`s Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn`s magnetosphere changes with seasons

Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 13:31

An undergraduate student from the University of Iowa has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn`s magnetosphere is linked to the planet`s seasons and changes with them.