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.

Point Nemo is situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, farther from land than any other documented spot on the planet. Its coordinates mark a location surrounded by thousands of miles of open ...

Point Nemo sits quietly in the southern Pacific, marked on maps but rarely thought about. It is not a destination in any usual sense. There are no ships passing nearby, no islands breaking the surface ...

The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered. Sunday (Nov. 2) marked the 25th anniversary of continuous human occupation of the International Space Station ...

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What do you do with a spacecraft when it’s no longer operational? Plunge it into a specific stretch of the Pacific.