Cassini finds plastic ingredient propylene on Saturn`s moon Titan

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 10:20

NASA`s Cassini spacecraft has discovered propylene, a chemical that is used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers, on Saturn`s moon Titan.

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.”

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 moon Titan glows in dark

Last Updated: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 19:44

A person in a balloon in Titan’s haze layer wouldn’t see the glow because it’s too faint -- something like a millionth of a watt.

ESA’s Huygens bounced, slid and wobbled to rest on Saturn’s moon

Last Updated: Friday, October 12, 2012, 14:30

The moon’s surface is more complex than previously thought.

Gas clouds over Titan reveal changing seasons on Saturn’s moon

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 11:12

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of planet’s largest moon Titan.