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Double Trouble: Sun hurls powerful coronal mass ejections at Earth; radio blackouts, GPS disruptions, auroras likely over the weekend!
The first CME is expected to hit our planet today, October 4, potentially sparking moderate geomagn…
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Stocks tumble, oil spikes as Mideast tensions flare
Investors moved out of equities as conflict escalated between Israel and Iran. Traders piled into s…
Filip De Mott
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20 Starlink satellites rained down on Earth yesterday; turbulent space weather doomed mission recovery
SpaceX faced a setback in its Starlink project as 20 satellites were lost due to a malfunction duri…
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A Russian spy plane violated Japan's airspace 3 times, driving it to scramble its fighters and fire flares
Tokyo's defense ministry said the Russian surveillance plane violated its airspace repeatedly on Mo…
Chris Panella
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ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years
The Sun has been throwing some major temper tantrums lately, its active sunspot AR13664 directing m…
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Major solar storm alert: Third CME this week to hit Earth on May 10-11, possibly affecting satellite communications, GPS and power grids
The Sun has spewed out six X-class flares in the past week, the last three whoppers clocking in at …
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Philippines says China shot flares near its aircraft from a 'militarized' island and a fighter jet
Relations between the two countries have become increasingly fraught over the last year, with a ser…
Rebecca Rommen
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China's air force is again being called out for 'dangerous' moves over the South China Sea, this time for popping flares in front of a US ally's aircraft
The Philippines said a pair of Chinese jets flew close to one of its transport planes and popped fl…
Chris Panella
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A Chinese fighter jet popped flares in the path of an Australian military helicopter in an 'unsafe' Yellow Sea intercept, Canberra says
A Chinese aircraft released flares in the flight path of an Australian Defence Force helicopter, es…
Ella Sherman
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Legendary forecaster Jeremy Grantham highlights 4 areas of the stock market still worth investing in as bubble fears flare
Grantham has long been sounding the alarm on a bubble in AI stocks, but he still sees opportunities…
Matthew Fox
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Russia is trying to mess up Ukraine's air defense by deploying decoy flares on its missiles, soldier says
Russia has started firing missiles that deploy decoy flares to try to bypass Ukraine's air defense …
Sinéad Baker
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The risk of a recession could flare up if the Fed waits too long to cut rates, top economist Mohamed El-Erian says
A June rate cut would be appropriate, but any further delay would raise the odds of a recession, Mo…
Filip De Mott
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Republicans clash for hours on the Senate floor as tempers flare over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade of military promotions
GOP Sens. Dan Sullivan and Joni Ernst held the floor for more than 4 hours as they forced Tubervill…
Brent D. Griffiths
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The crisis in the Middle East could fuel a flare-up in inflation and hasten an economic slump for the US
Should Iran become embroiled in the crisis in the Middle East, it could have disastrous consequence…
George Glover
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Astronomers are baffled after spotting strange cosmic flares that have 10 billion times more power than the sun
Astronomers spotted at least 14 irregular and highly energetic bursts in deep space, each lasting o…
Marianne Guenot
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Video shows Russian fighter jets bullying US Reaper drones with their afterburners and flares
The US Air Force said three Russian Su-35s engaged in "unsafe and unprofessional behavior" while th…
Jake Epstein
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A man stranded for 3 days on a remote Bahamas island was rescued by the Coast Guard after he fired flares
The US Coast Guard rescued a man who was stranded on an uninhabited Bahamas island for three days a…
Joshua Zitser
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The 'Beyoncé blip' in Sweden should remind investors that inflation could flare up again unexpectedly, Morgan Stanley says
Swedish inflation cooled less than expected in May, with some economists blaming the disappointing …
George Glover
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Video captures a Russian Su-35 fighter jet harassing and breaking a US Reaper drone by popping flares above it
A US Air Force general said the Russian aircraft flew "dangerously close" to the drone as it was ca…
Jake Epstein
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Sun smacks Earth with 2 powerful, back-to-back X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the US
The sun flashed back-to-back powerful X-class solar flares at the Earth. X-class flares are the mos…