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• 'Logan's Run' at 50: Remembering this disco-age sci-fi classic on its golden anniversary

  27-06-2026 20:00 via space.com
  
  The 1970s were truly when science fiction cinema made astronomical leaps into the public's consciousness and catapulted out of the B-movie bin to become a respected entertainment genre. Aside from a few serious science fiction standouts like "The Andromeda Strain," "Silent Running," "Soylent Green," "Westworld," and "Rollerball," the pre-"Star Wars" era of Hollywood sci-fi was mostly forgettable fare.But before we all travelled to a galaxy far, far away, experienced close encounters of the third
  
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• This Week In Space podcast: Episode 216 — Dark Matter Intelligence

  27-06-2026 17:10 via space.com
  
  On Episode 216 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson about other intelligences is beyond our scope.Whiteson, particle physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider andprofessor at UC Irvine, joins us to explore less conventional thoughtson first contact. We look at the challenges of communicating withextraterrestrial intelligences, potential difficulties of communicatingvia non-terrestrial mathematics and physics, and the possibility thatextraterrest
  
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• SpaceCamp at 40: A wish-fulfillment fantasy brought down to earth by NASA's real-life disaster

  27-06-2026 16:00 via space.com
  
  When "SpaceCamp" landed in theaters in June 1986, it should have been the ultimate wish-fulfillment movie, as if "The Goonies" had cashed in their hard-earned pirate treasure in return for a spin in an actual Space Shuttle. It boasted a bigger budget than "Top Gun", a cast of up-and-coming young stars — including a future Oscar-winner — and a score by Hollywood's most famous composer. Twentieth Century Fox had bet big on a blockbuster hit, but a real-life tragedy four months earlier
  
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• Blue Origin plans to fly New Glenn rocket again this year despite massive rocket explosion (video)

  27-06-2026 15:00 via space.com
  
  Blue Origin is hard at work at its Cape Canaveral launch pad, collecting debris and repairing the damage after an explosive accident last month.The company's New Glenn rocket exploded during a fueling test last month at Launch Complex-36 (LC-36). The resulting fireball laid waste to the surrounding facility, and erupted in a burst with a glow visible more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. In the aftermath, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp voiced confidence that, despite the setback, the company wou
  
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• NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?

  27-06-2026 14:00 via space.com
  
  NASA is hoping to use drones to speed up organ delivery for transplant patients.A flight test earlier this month at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia saw a drone pick up a kidney and fly it for the first time beyond "line of sight", or the distance from which a drone is visible by an operator. Keeping a line of sight on a drone is a typical requirement for flight safety, but NASA is developing tools that may allow these machines to fly further away from operators in populated environmen
  
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• Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision

  27-06-2026 12:00 via space.com
  
  A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are reshaped by colossal shock waves as they plunge through galaxy clusters.Named RAD-BAARG (short for Radio Bow-And-Arrow Radio Galaxy), the object spans nearly 1.8 million light-years across, making it almost 18 times wider than the Milky Way. Its unusual structure was first identified by a citizen scienti
  
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