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.

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 ...

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 ...

Point Nemo is so remote that those on the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above Earth, are usually the closest humans to this isolated place. Located nearly 1,700 miles from the nearest ...

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 ...

Earth has no shortage of strange and dramatic places. There’s the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan — a natural gas crater that has burned continuously since 1971. North Sentinel Island in India’s Andaman ...

Where is the true "middle of nowhere?" Philosophically speaking, it's always about two hours drive from your home town. Scientifically, it's Point Nemo: a place which is important due to the immensity ...