AFP - Astronomers have pieced together the remnants of a mighty collision that smashed apart a planet-sized rock in the Kuiper Belt, on the far-flung fringes of the Solar System.

AFP - Russia's Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday.

Reuters - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of huge seas -- one of them bigger than any of North America's Great Lakes -- on Saturn's largest moon, scientists said on Tuesday.

SPACE.com - A NASA spacecraft has found evidence of huge seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan.

AFP - Saturn's moon Titan appears to have large seas filled with liquid gas, according to data collected by the Cassini space probe, scientists said Tuesday.

AFP - An Indian satellite designed to boost television and communication services was on course Tuesday to reach its final orbit after its delayed launch by an Ariane rocket, the national space agency said.

AFP - Final checks have begun on the Canadian Anik F3 telecommunication satellite due to be launched into space by a Russian rocket next month, the rocket's makers said on Monday.