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The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field on Tuesday, and it could affect airline routes, power grids and satellites, the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center said.

A solar flare occurring at 11 p.m. on Sunday caused a mass coronal ejection, a burst of charged particles, and is causing the biggest solar storm since to hit the Earth since 2005. But what exactly is a solar flare?

A massive explosion on the sun's surface has released a current of charged plasma particles toward Earth, which according to scientists, wouldn't jeopardize life but could disrupt satellite communications briefly. This is the strongest solar radiation storm since 2005.

Sun flares that Tuesday will bombard the Earth with solar radiation will be the strongest storm since May 2005 and has apocalyptic enthusiasts buzzing for signs of the end of the world.

South Africa's Sun City resort will invest $800 million in a tourism project in Sri Lanka, the head of the island nation's state-run Tourism Board said on Friday.

A recent solar storm will begin whipping around the Earth's magnetic fields Dec. 28 and it will cause unusually bright auroras, but also potentially cause radio blackouts.

Michael Ferro Jr., the CEO of Merrick Ventures LLC, will lead the investment group. The deal is expected to close within the next several days.

Women who use lotions and gels to produce a fake suntan tend to cut back on outdoor sunbathing and use of tanning beds, with close to 40 percent who use such products saying they limited their time in the sun, U.S. researchers said.

Comet Lovejoy -- on a near-collision course with the sun and presumed to be doomed to a fiery death -- surprised astronomers on Thursday when it passed completely through the sun's corona and shot back out into space.

As our sun churns out massive amounts of energy, it sometimes belts out enough solar wind to literally sandblast the surface of the Moon. NASA scientists have used a model of the effects of coronal mass ejections -a gargantuan type of sun storm- to determine that such events can blow the equivalent of 10 dump truck loads of dust right off the Moon's surface and into space.

The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.

Sun Life Financial (SLF.TO: Quote) is cutting about 90 positions after weak market conditions sent the insurer to its first quarterly loss in two years.

Scientists had theorized the existence of a thin layer of the sun's outermost atmosphere where the interstellar winds bumped up against the last gasps of high energy particles at the edge of our solar system. Voyager 1, speeding through the cosmos for the last 35 years, has finally reached this zone and confirmed the sun's energy has indeed given way to particles from other galaxies.

An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says.

James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the companies that publish its British newspapers including the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking sandal, regulatory filings show.

The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group.

Rare yellow diamond will go up for auction.

The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. threatened to spread to other titles on Friday, as sources said a journalist at the Sun newspaper had been arrested over allegations of police bribery.

An uncommon, all-red aurora borealis or Northern Light appeared over the skies of the city of Independence in Missouri at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 24.

In case you missed it, here are some photos and videos of Monday's Northern Lights show as it moved into the sky view of southern states in the U.S.

American singer and actor, Jennifer Lopez, reportedly broke down and started crying, after performing a few of her more famous romantic numbers, at her Mohegan Sun concert in Montville, Conn.