Of all the useless projects undertaken by humanity, few have been more difficult, futile, and unpleasant than artificially creating...

Sometimes the smallest, most esoteric discoveries can lead to groundbreaking changes in science and technology--like Percy Spencer's...

This past August, we reported on a study conducted by the AP (and backed up by Princeton University) that revealed that Google's...

The Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey is so iconic that you probably know some of the major plot points even if you...

They may not have had WiFi or indoor plumbing, but our cave dwelling ancestors were smarter and much more advanced than some people...

Outer Places was recently contacted by the folks over at UFO Today, a YouTube channel devoted to videos of supposed alien sightings....

Get ready to see this little piece of tech in the next Mission Impossible movie: AI-generated thumb prints capable of fooling a...

Artificial intelligence and the companies behind the technology are often criticized when things go wrong, but rarely are developers...

After years of warnings and debate over genetically modifying humans, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui has posted a video on...

Besides increasingly rare interactions with old-school thermometers, most people's exposure to the chemical element mercury starts and...

We are pleased to introduce the fifth installment of our inaugural venture into fiction with Donald McPhedran Gibson's Aqaara, the...

What happens to the body after death? We've all heard the stories about how some animals – namely snakes – can still bite after...

When most people imagine disasters wiping out astronauts in space, it usually looks like Alien or Apollo 13. According to a new...

Despite millions of light-years between us and most exoplanets, we're not only getting better at spotting them, we're now able to...

After shooting dozens of satellites into space, landing astronauts on the Moon, and landing not one, but two rovers on the Red...

When you're talking about large space rocks hurdling towards your home, how much of a percentage does it take before you start to...

When Elon Musk  spoke to Stephen Colbert about colonizing Mars in 2014, it still sounded like a pipe dream. Now, four years later,...

Director Robert Rodriguez has an eclectic film catalog to say the least, ranging from the goofy, violent cult classic Dusk 'Til...

It's a mystery that began back in the 1970s when the first images of Phobos were taken—what caused those streaks in the surface of...

Omnidirectional VR treadmills are so 2015. Apart from being as big as a piece of home gym equipment and suspiciously similar in design...