Frozen iceball or hidden ocean? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has renewed debate among planetary scientists over Saturn's geyser-spewing mystery moon, Enceladus. Cassini mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have begun unveiling images of a 40,000-mph pass over Enceladus last week. The flyby, which...
LOS ANGELES AFP — NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface. The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that...
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. is reviewing its brands and may try to jettison some of them to raise money as it burns through cash at an alarming rate. But industry analysts say buyer interest in the brands most likely to be sold -- Buick, Hummer, Saab and...
What a great time for General Motors to have a sweet-driving, decent-looking small car like the Saturn Astra. It's a barely Americanized German Opel Astra and went on sale in the USA in January. Saturn and Opel are both General Motors brands, and it cuts costs...
PARIS AFP — A US-European exploration of Saturn that has already been lauded as one of the shining achievements in space history is to be extended by two years, the European Space Agency ESA said on Tuesday. Quoting sources at NASA, which is the principal funder of the Cassini...
Data from NASA'S Cassini spacecraft raise new questions about the origin of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus and the heat driving its plume of ice and water vapor. Cassini lived to tell the tale of its March 12 brush with the enormous plume of ice, water vapor, and gas spewing...
To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Carolina Martinez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov PASADENA, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov; or Carolina Martinez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov, both of NASA PASADENA, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12....
WASHINGTON AFP — Saturn's second largest moon Rhea could have at least one ring, the first to be discovered around a planet's satellite, researchers reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected around Rhea by...
To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Carolina Martinez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov PASADENA, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first...
The dustbin of business failures is full of once sharply focused companies that lost their way because they diversified across too many markets. Market focus wasn't all that was lost. So were positive cash flow and a customer who, instead of seeing clear choices and remaining loyal, became confused and...
The 2008 Saturn Vue SUV, a full redesign, is nearly identical to the German Opel Antara model that General Motors, parent to both brands, sells in Europe. Saturn is trying to morph from GM's touchy-feely brand to its Euro marque, so it kept as much German...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa opened the 2007 Los Angeles Fashion Awards at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday night by acknowledging the global influence of the Los Angeles fashion industry and its contributions to the Southern California economy as the leading manufacturing employer in the region. He also recognized the fashion community...
PARIS AFP — A clutch of baby moons detected in Saturn's outermost ring has bolstered a theory that the giant planet's magnificent circles were created from icy satellites that smashed up over tens of millions of years. Eight "moonlets" -- large boulders measuring between 60 and 140 metres yards...
Debbie Matenopoulos, host of E's "The Daily 10," the top-rated "Fashion Police" and Style Network's #1-rated show, "Instant Beauty Pageant," will host the 2007 LA Fashion Awards. Set for October 26th at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District, the awards honor excellence in Los Angeles fashion, from...
Daisy O'Dell is a rising star music maven long favored by fashion insiders. She has shaped the music for the runway shows of designers Candice Held and Joseph Domingo as musical director for runway show producer James Campbell. She has toured with Gwen Stefani, DJ'd at launch parties for Amy...
PARIS AFP — Little by little, two moons of Saturn that rank among the enduring enigmas of the Solar System are shedding their mystery. Using the orbiting US-Italian probe Cassini, scientists are getting astonishing close-up looks of Enceladus and Iapetus, two strange slaves of the Saturnian king. Enceladus...
At a time when New York's fading fashion district is grumbling about going condo, Los Angeles steps up once again in celebration of its own fashion leadership. For years now, Los Angeles has been home to the largest fashion district in the country, employing more people in apparel production than...
Buick Enclave is supposed to be the luxury version of the full-size crossover SUVs that General Motors also sells as the Saturn Outlook and the GMC Acadia. The Buick hit the market about four months later than the others, tagged as a 2008 model, while the...
The nominees were announced today for the inaugural Supima Denim Designer of the Year Award at the 2007 Los Angeles Fashion Awards presented by Saturn. The LA Fashion Awards nominating committee of more than 40 fashion editors, retailers, designers and industry organizers expert in the west coast marketplace made...