Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image showing the international space station orbiting above the ocean. It's been called the "loneliest place on earth" — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where is the true "middle of nowhere?" Philosophically speaking, it's always about two hours drive from your home town.

Earth’s orbit is filling with debris fast enough to risk a chain reaction of collisions, so agencies needed a place to safely bring dead spacecraft down. That solution is Point Nemo, a lonely patch of ...

Point Nemo, located in the South Pacific, was computed in 1992. It's equidistant (2,688 km) from Ducie, Motu Nui, and Maher Islands. Over 250 deorbited spacecraft have been sunk there since the 1970s.

The world is a big place. So big that there are many obscure locations most of us will never hear of, much less visit. As a matter of fact, scientists have mapped out the most inaccessible areas to ...

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Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031. Point Nemo has the distinction of being the most remote place on Earth. Located in the middle of ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday touted Starlink capabilities at Point Nemo. What Happened: Point Nemo is a point in the Pacific Ocean farthest from land at a distance of about 2,688 kilometers or ...

As Earth’s orbit fills with dangerous debris, obsolete spacecraft are deliberately sent to the most remote place on the planet. This is the story of Point Nemo, the space cemetery beneath the Pacific, ...