Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die. This spread of water, 34 times larger than France , has been used as a dumping ground for ...

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 ...

At 357 feet (109 meters) long and 925,335 pounds (419,725 kilograms), it will be the largest addition to the space graveyard at Point Nemo. Sinking spacecraft into the ocean might seem like an ...

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 ...

When the ISS descends back to Earth in 2031, it's more important than ever that the debris falls over an uninhabited area like Point Nemo – it weighs around 400 tonnes. And there are already ...

Point Nemo, officially known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, was discovered in 1992 by Hrvoje Lukatela, a Canadian-Russian engineer. Since then, more than 260 pieces of space debris—from ...

I wondered idly if in her Point Nemo investigations Winckler had ever run into a bit of space junk. She laughed. No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have ...

It won't be the first space station to come to rest at Point Nemo. Russia's Mir space station met its end there, alongside the 300-or-so other bits of space junk currently littering the seabed of ...

Instead, it will come to rest back on Earth in Point Nemo, the furthest point from land in the ocean. NASA has employed SpaceX to go through with the retrieval mission, offering a $843 million ...

Space junk at home: Welcome to lonely Point Nemo, Earth's dumping ground for derelict space junk. Sky-watching: Geminid meteor shower: ...