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A new fixed figure replaces the complicated equation that served as the previous definition of an astronomical unit..

Moon was born in what is now North Korea.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a self-proclaimed messiah from South Korea who founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, or Unification Church, businessman, convicted U.S. tax evader and friend of North Korea -- died at the age of 92 on Monday.

The Sun, a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom, is coming under fire after it displayed naked photos of Prince Harry across its front page on Friday with the words: "HEIR IT IS!"

Elizabeth Murdoch's comments came after The Sun, a News International title owned by her father, became the first British newspaper to publish the infamous naked photographs of Prince Harry - a move which it describes as a "crucial test of Britain's free Press."

NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) telescope recently captured, what the agency claimed, the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona.

The popular band Dispatch is back touring again after a nearly 10-year hiatus.

The rare Transit of Venus will come to the United States Tuesday, as the second planet in the solar system will pass in front of the sun as it sets. The event occurs only once every century, so it's best to prepare ahead of time. Here's how.

A spectacular solar eclipse, dubbed the ring of fire, will be visible to people in certain parts of the world Sunday night and Monday morning -- depending on location -- but live broadcasts will make it available to anyone with an Internet connection.

Sheryl Crow forgot the lyrics to Soak Up the Sun during a recent concert in St. Petersburg, Fla., on May 5. Crow, who has won nine Grammy Awards, kept her cool during the Saturday night show, when she could not remember the words to one of her biggest hits.

Over the final weekend of April, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Joe Cowley sent out a handful of sexist and demeaning messages over Twitter; since then, Cowley's Twitter account has been deleted and the editor-in-chief has reprimanded him. Will Cowley lose his job?

For most people, pole dancing is pre-conceived as an exotic dance form restricted to the modern generation. However, for Sun Fengqin, her sixty years won't hold her back from performing.

The European Space Agency and NASA are undertaking a joint venture to launch a spacecraft that will get closer to the sun than any craft ever has before.

After Chinese researcher named Loktar_Sun discovered a method that allows unlocking any model of the iPhone on any baseband with the help of the Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM) by Sam Bingner, iPhone Dev Team also joined the party by releasing RedSn0w 0.9.10b8, an updated version of the jailbreak utility, allowing users of the SAM unlock tool to back up their activation tickets for safekeeping.

Astronomers have long known about the superwinds and space sandstorms that herald the deaths of stars, but until now, have been at a loss to explain how they happen.

Raymond Kwok, the billionaire co-chairman of Hong Kong property company Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd , said he and his brother Thomas did nothing wrong, in their first public appearance since being arrested last week on suspicion of corruption.

Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd's chief executive said on Tuesday the Chinese solar company expects to return to profit, along with the entire industry, in the fourth quarter as prices stabilize on tighter inventories and improving demand.

The billionaire brothers and co-chairmen of Hong Kong property company Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd <0016.HK>, who were arrested last week on suspicion of corruption, will make their first public appearance on Tuesday, an official at the company's media department told Reuters on Tuesday.

More than $5 billion was wiped off the market value of Sun Hung Kai Properties on Friday, after the billionaire owners of Asia's largest real estate developer were arrested on suspicion of corruption.

Astronomers discovered a solar system that appears to have been created 12.8 billion years ago - less than a billion years after the big bang

Russian great-great-great-grandmother Anastasia Khoreva lived to be 105 years old, but she decided to cut her life short rather than wait to die.