Targeting a July 1 launch date, NASA is slowly rolling out the space shuttle Discovery.

You all remember the Space Shuttle, right?

Observations from the Cassini spacecraft suggest that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, may have cold running water. Below-zero water could, hypothetically, contain living organisms.

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No, not really, but the past week has seen some interesting announcements in the field of zoology.

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The latest private space venture, Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon, should blast off in late March, from a private launch facility.

This explosive event in space, detected last week, has astronomers wondering….

Tidal heating and other processes could result in life-bearing moons of gas giants, according to this article. Don’t count those red dwarf stars out, either.

So maybe Lucas was onto something with his forested moons, and Whedon with his wild west satellites.

So you should wash more diligently. Bahahahaha….

Sorry.

Astronomers have identified two more rings, bringing the planet’s total to thirteen. Two previously unidentified satellites have also been sighted.

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Recent studies suggest Mars may not hold the deposits of water that earlier researchers (and optimistic SF writers) have suggested. Features which appear to have been left by evaporation may be the result of volcanic activity or meteor strikes.

We stand at what one NASA official calls the “dawn of a new space age,” and commercial spacecraft will play a part. Perhaps the worn-out predictions of jobs in space and grizzled pilots at the space station bar will soon become a reality