Scientists studying images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found evidence of massive snowballs dragging glittering trails from one of Saturn’s rings.

Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the surface, may explain the mysterious two-toned "yin-yang" appearance of Saturn's moon Iapetus.

By Philip Haldiman, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 31--Our planet isn't the only heavenly body with liquid on its surface. Scientists from the University of Arizona and NASA on Wednesday announced at least one of the large, lakelike features on a moon of Saturn is wet.

It took two years of filming to create the first movie in the "Lord of the Rings" series, the blockbuster trilogy that first captivated moviegoers in 2001.

ASTRONOMY A new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft is putting the spotlight on Saturn's split-personality moon Iapetus: half being- bright, half being dark.