In the science fiction adventure Upside Down (streaming now on Peacock) scientists and engineers can play fast and loose with their dual planets’ gravity. It’s possible in this fictional world, under ...
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 ...
Being out in the wilderness has a new, more intense meaning in Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean. Point Nemo is a place so remote that no human has ever been there, only the defunct spacecrafts ...
In a carefully orchestrated plan, NASA intends to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS), a spacecraft the size of a football field, into the South Pacific Ocean at Point Nemo in 2031. This ...
It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed ...
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 ...