At a Glance Not everyone will be able to see the total lunar eclipse.A blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. Editor's note:Join meteorologist Kait Parker and astronomer John Gianforte for a live look at the lunar eclipse on The Weather Channel app. The show begins 7:30 a.m. EST Wednesday. Stargazers are in for a rare treat next week that hasn't been witnessed in more than 100 years. A total lunar eclipse Jan. 31 should be...

A pyrocumulonimbus cloud is seen over Argentina in an image acquired Jan. 29, 2018. (NASA) At a Glance A NASA satellite spotted a pyrocumulonimbus cloud over Argentina on Monday.The cloud was above a large wildfire burning in the La Pampa Province.Forests and grasslands are burned by thousands of wildfires each year in Argentina. Argentina's wildfire season has – yet again – devastated thousands of square miles in forests and grasslands, marching across the landscape in unstoppable fashion. Each year, some...

A super blue blood moon offered skygazers across the U.S. a triple treat early Wednesday. ...

Photos from the Curiosity rover showcase a stunning vista from Mars’ Gale crater. ...

YouTuber Yeti Dynamics imagines if the Moon orbited at the same height as the ISS. ...

Japan’s space agency said it successfully launched the world’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket. The rocket was about the size of a utility pole, measuring around 33 feet in length and about 20 inches in diameter. It carried a microsatellite weighing about 6 and a half pounds. It will collect imagery of the Earth’s surface. ...

An amateur astronomer based in Canada discovered a NASA satellite believed dead since its signals stopped in 2005. ...

SpaceX has just launched the world’s most powerful rocket! ...

At a Glance The sun periodically goes through a time of diminished magnetism known to scientists as a grand solar minimum. Scientists believe the last grand minimum occurred in the 17th century. The sun is likely to emit less UV radiation for a period of time by mid-century, a new study says, which may "slow down but not stop global warming." The that'sknown to scientists as a grand solar minimum, according to the Scripps Institutionof Oceanography.The next grand minimum could...

The setting sun sometimes causes an amazing sight, a brief green or blue flash of light. ...

Two boosters from SpaceX Heavy rocket launch return safely in a precise landing. ...

This December 2017 false-color image made available by NASA in February 2018 shows KBO (Kuiper Belt object) 2012 HZ84. This image is, for now, one of the farthest pictures from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP) At a Glance New Horizons recorded a picture of a star cluster taken from nearly 4 billion miles away, breaking the previous record.The photo surpassed the "Pale Blue Dot" images of Earth taken by...