Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, HMS Endurance, was located by a team of scientists, historians and filmmakers more than a century after it sunk off the coast of Antarctica. | CNN

🛸✨ Explorers (1985) captured the pure wonder of 1980s sci-fi adventure—kids, dreams, and DIY space travel. Directed by Joe Dante, the film follows three young friends—Ben (Ethan Hawke), Wolfgang (River Phoenix), and Darren (Jason Presson)—who build a homemade spaceship after receiving mysterious visions of circuit diagrams in their dreams. What starts as a backyard experiment turns into a wild, intergalactic journey that mixes childhood imagination with cosmic comedy. Explorers was rushed to th