[caption id="attachment_44035" align="alignleft" width="320"] First stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landing on SpaceX's floating platform. / Mètode[/caption] When NASA was founded, the USAF (United States Air

When I was a kid, I was told that stars were faraway suns, and I asked myself if all of them had planets around.

Imagine a solar panel that can transform almost one hundred percent of the sunlight it receives into electricity. To make

One of the most common scientific inaccuracies in science fiction movies with journeys to other worlds is their depiction of gravity. With very few

If anything makes space travel particular is its roughness: fuel bursting in a controlled explosion, which, more than once, end up being uncontrolled. But space exploration based on

In the previous issue of Mètode I wrote about the Mars One project, which intends to send 24 colonists to Mars. The conclusion was that

You will have probably heard about the Mars One project, a Dutch private initiative that aims to establish a permanent settlement on Mars. The

Concerning the alleged Mayan apocalypse prophecy, a friend of mine asked: «Well, after this new fiasco, what’s the next scheduled end of the world?»

Mètode In other issues we discussed the possibility (or impossibility) of travelling faster than the speed of light.