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  Cassini’s 13-year odyssey comes to end with a fiery plunge into Saturn

  Science | September 20, 2017 12:14 IST

  NASA received a final signal from its Cassini spacecraft on Friday, whose 13-year-old unparalleled journey came to an end with a meteor-link plunge into the Saturn’s crushing atmosphere

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  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up over Saturn ending 20-year-long journey

  World | September 15, 2017 18:13 IST

  NASA's $4 billion Cassini spacecraft has burned up in the skies over Saturn as planned, ending a 20-year mission.

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  Saturn moon Enceladus has necessary conditions needed for alien life: NASA

  World | April 14, 2017 12:35 IST

  Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may contain a form of chemical energy that life can feed on, according to a latest NASA study that provides new insights into the 'ocean worlds' in our solar system.

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  See pics! NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures first images of Saturn’s atmosphere from new orbit

  World | December 09, 2016 16:54 IST

  US space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has sent its first views of the planet’s atmosphere showing scenes from high above the planet's northern hemisphere, including an intriguing hexagon-shaped jet stream. Cassini began its

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  NASA’s Cassini finds subsurface ocean lying deep within Saturn's moon Dione

  World | October 06, 2016 18:46 IST

  A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, offering a long lived habitable zone for microbial life, suggests a new data from the Cassini mission. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus,

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  NASA’s Cassini spots mysterious ice cloud over Saturn's moon Titan

  World | September 22, 2016 16:47 IST

  In a revelation that goes contrary the understanding scientists had of the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon so far, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an outlandish mysterious ice cloud over Titan. "The appearance of

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  See Pic! NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures THIS incredible image of Saturn's smallest moon ‘Pan’

  World | September 20, 2016 11:00 IST

  The planet Saturn has a large number of moons. It has big moons, small moons and uneven potato-shaped moons. The second innermost moon of Saturn is Pan, which is walnut-shaped and very small in

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  Video! NASA's Cassini gears up for closest-ever observations of Saturn

  World | September 16, 2016 12:11 IST

  After more than 12 years of studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. As per NASA report, Cassini is all set to make the

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  NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures bright ‘glow effect’ on Saturn’s B ring (See Pic)

  World | August 30, 2016 13:39 IST

  US space agency NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured another amazing image which shows a bright effect on the Saturn B ring. The Cassini, which is exploring the planet and its moons, has come up

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  NASA to send submarine to Saturn's moon Titan in search of life

  World | August 29, 2016 19:03 IST

  U.S space agency NASA is planning to send a submarine to Saturn's biggest moon Titan. The aim is to find the chemical composition of the Kraken Mare, the largest ocean of the moon, and search

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  NASA’s submarine could explore life on Saturn’s moon Titan

  World | August 27, 2016 16:44 IST

  US space agency NASA has unveiled plans to send a submarine into the depths of Kraken Mare, the largest on Saturn’s moon Titan, which is the only body outside the Earth with liquid lakes and seas on its surface.

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  VIDEO! NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds flooded canyons on Saturn's moon Titan

  World | August 11, 2016 14:18 IST

  Scientists have found that some of the steep-sided canyons on Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons, based on the radar observation by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Such features on Saturn’s largest moon

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  See picture! NASA releases this amazing image of second largest moon of Saturn taken by Cassini spacecraft

  World | August 09, 2016 11:48 IST

  The US space agency NASA has released a fascinating picture of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn just after Titan. The shot has been taken by its Cassini spacecraft. After Titan and Tethys which

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  Are Saturn’s rings ‘bending’ or is it just an optical illusion?

  World | July 26, 2016 18:34 IST

  A new image of Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system, captured by its Cassini spacecraft shows two of the planet’s rings appearing to melt

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  Saturn’s moon Titan can possibly support life, even without water: study

  World | July 11, 2016 7:28 IST

  A new study by scientists at Cornell University indicates that the chemical composition found on Saturn’s biggest moon Titan might breed life even without water.

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  NASA to explore Saturn’s icy moons for life

  World | April 27, 2016 7:37 IST

  NASA scientists have proposed deploying a robotic system to explore the exotic environment of the subsurface oceans of Saturn’s icy moons that may potentially harbour life.

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  'Global' ocean containing vast liquid water reservoir found in Saturn's moon: NASA

  World | September 16, 2015 22:09 IST

  Washington: A 'global' ocean containing a vast liquid water reservoir lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from Nasa's Cassini mission.Researchers found that the magnitude

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  Saturn and Jupiter started off as tiny pebbles: Study

  World | August 24, 2015 9:56 IST

  Washington:  Gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter may have been built by centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from dust and ice swirling around the newborn Sun, a new study suggests.Researchers have

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  NASA probe spots unusual red arcs on icy Saturn moon

  World | July 30, 2015 11:03 IST

  Washington: Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys.The red arcs are narrow, curved lines on the moon's surface,

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  Scientists to hunt for alien life on Jupiter moons

  World | July 26, 2015 18:30 IST

  London: After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.Earlier this week, the European