TIME science news

1. SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Launch Ends With Scrapped Effort to Catch Booster

   The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons.

2. The World’s Freshwater Resources Drop to Troubling Low

   Climate change is contributing to a global drying with no end in sight, according to a new study.

3. Why This Alaskan Town Will Experience 64 Days of Darkness

   Utqiaġvik undergoes the unique experience of polar night—which for them is a period of more than 60 days of darkness when the residents live without daylight.

4. How to See the ‘Beaver’ Supermoon—the last of 2024

   The supermoon will also occur at the same time as the Leonid meteor shower.

5. Inside Capitol Hill’s Latest UFO Hearings

   Witnesses argue that the government knows more than it's admitting.