Avalanche Software Art Blog whips up Star Wars character Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits). These guys seriously need to publish an art book...
One for Kalpana (and other Bollywood-holics): Shah Rukh Khan has been cast to star in the Indian science fiction film Robot.
Cinematical also has the scoop on the plot of the Futurama movie: "Alien nudist Internet scammers attempt to take over Earth through a plot that involves sending the robot Bender through time to steal the planet's cultural treasures."
SciFi Scanner points us to a shiny Serenity poster set featuring everyone's favorite nebulously evil corporation villain, Blue Sun.
At Strange Horizons, Marshall Perrin looks at real planetary exploration in his article Settings for Space Opera, Part II: A Perplexing Plethora of Planets. "The discovery of planets around other stars is now a routine occurrence. As I write this, 240 are known, but that total may well be higher by the time you read these words: on average, a new planet is found every two weeks."
Finally...an answer to the question "How does Darth Vader get around when his Tie Fighter is in the shop?" It's the Darth Vader bicycle. [via Club Jade]