A STUNT-RIDING display by a fearless BMX team will be just one of the attractions at the forthcoming Surf and Sea festival in Tramore.

SCIENTISTS said they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn’s giant moon Titan.

ENCELADUS was a familiar name in ancient Greece. Gaia, the Earth to you and me, was fertilised by the blood of Uranus and gave birth to children known as the Gigantes, one of whom was Enceladus.

AT least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, Nasa has announced.

THE British prison inspector has warned the Irish Government not to go down the road of building a “super prison” in north Dublin.

Building blocks of life may have been found in a ring of red dust surrounding a distant star.

US scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon.

Saturn’s planet-size moon Titan has dramatic weather, with freezing temperatures, carbon- and nitrogen-rich clouds and possibly lightning, scientists said today, describing a world that may have looked like the Earth before life developed.

The international Cassini spacecraft has spotted what appears to be an ice volcano on Saturn’s planet-size moon, a finding that may help explain the source of Titan’s thick atmosphere.

STAR-STRUCK couples are expected to collect in their thousands on St Valentine's night for a special introduction to the stars.

The European probe that landed Saturn’s largest moon found a freezing, primitive but active world that, like Earth, seems to be doused with rains that gouge out rivers, erode rocks and form pools, scientists revealed today.

Scientists were celebrating today after capturing images of Saturn’s moon Titan, which were sent to Earth by the European Huygens spacecraft.

European space officials offered sharpened pictures today from their Huygens probe on Saturn’s moon Titan, showing a pale orange surface covered by a thin haze of methane and what appears to be a methane sea with islands and a mist-shrouded coastline.

SCIENTISTS were celebrating last night after confirmation a European spacecraft had landed safely on Saturn’s icy cloud-covered moon Titan after a seven- year journey.

Scientists were celebrating tonight after confirmation that a European spacecraft had landed safely on Saturn’s icy cloud-covered moon Titan after a seven year journey.

A spacecraft almost a billion miles from Earth has successfully made the closest encounter ever of Saturn’s mysterious smog-bound moon Titan, scientists revealed today.

After nearly seven years of travel, the international Cassini spacecraft is finally within striking distance of its heavenly destination: Saturn.

A SPACECRAFT heading for Saturn has returned the first close-up pictures of the planet’s oddball moon, Phoebe.