"Clerics in the UAE have deemed a colony on Mars as being un-Islamic
They argue that trying to live there would be akin to committing suicide
Killing oneself is strictly forbidden in Islam, according to the Quran
The ruling came after Mars One announced a 2025 mission to Mars
So far around 500 Saudis and Arabs have volunteered to take part in it"
"One of the moons of Saturn has turned out to be another possible habitat for extraterrestrial microbes after scientists have discovered that it possesses a large ocean of water beneath its icy surface.
Measurements of gravity fluctuations around Enceladus taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft indicate that there is an underground ocean of melted water at the moon's south pole which may be the source of dramatic vapour plumes seen at its surface."