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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
October 11, 2026
Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos
Explanation: Scientists are melting holes in the bottom of the world. In fact, almost 100 holes melted near the South Pole are now being used as an astronomical observatory. Astronomers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory lowered a long string knotted with basketball-sized light detectors into each vertical lake. The water in each hole soon refreezes. The detectors attached to the strings are sensitive to blue light emitted in the surrounding clear ice. Such light results from fast-moving secondary particles liberated when high-energy neutrinos emitted by powerful processes out in the universe collide with ice molecules. IceCube has now detected many illuminating neutrinos. Pictured in 2010, one of the last of IceCube's detector strings is lowered into the freezing abyss, making IceCube the largest neutrino detector ever created. In recognition of unprecedented discoveries, it was announced earlier this week that a founding leader of the IceCube Collaboration will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
https://science.nasa.gov/apod/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALsH-otwLg
G3 Solar Storm, Full Analysis, Pole Shift Effect | S0 News and frens
Oct.11.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRQJ-3tDMUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93MN4D9cnGU (Ray's Astro: The Sunspot That Hit Earth | AR4549 Live From My Backyard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuhYEbfxIpQ (Max Velocity: A HUGE Storm Train Is Coming…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JMYpaBbzk (On the Pulse with Silki: ANOTHER CATASTROPHE in Nepal TODAY — A River Unleashes Destruction!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NG0CSNwC_E (Mr Weatherman: Destructive Hurricane Simon, Tropical Storm Rachel, and Isaias Impacts…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumqRoORPC0 (dutchsinse: 10/10/2026 – FREE ELECTRICITY - FREE PURE WATER - FREE RECYCLED METAL - Invention lost in history)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FU7G-SZJQ (EarthMaster: Latest update on Panama Earthquakes. Cascadia Tremor counts elevated today. Saturday Night update)
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solar
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/moderate-g2-geomagnetic-storms-likely-11-oct-2026
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/strong-g3-geomagnetic-storms-expected-10-oct-2026
https://starlust.org/nasa-astronaut-shares-stunning-auroras-views-from-iss-amid-geomagnetic-storm-warning-in-u-s/
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wildfires
https://thenerdstash.com/wasted-tax-dollars-gov-gavin-newsoms-new-france-climate-deal-on-wildfires-and-clean-energy-sparks-backlash-from-californians/
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storms and floods
https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/weather/severe/2026/10/10/dust-storm-slams-phoenix-area/92194871007/
https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/water-rescues-5-landslides-and-flooded-roads-in-north-carolina-mountains-amid-heavy-rains-linked-to-isaias/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-taskforce-to-boost-britains-resilience-to-flooding-and-drought
https://thechronicle.com.ph/marcos-prepares-water-food-health-measures-as-super-el-nino-nears/
https://dtinews.dantri.com.vn/vietnam-today/high-tides-flood-ho-chi-minh-city-streets-forcing-vendors-to-close-20261011204409765.htm
https://www.wionews.com/world/nepal-flash-floods-swallow-homes-and-bridges-a-month-after-devastating-disaster-1791710993028
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tornadoes
https://www.whsv.com/2026/10/10/tornadoes-spotted-across-multiple-counties-severe-weather-isaias-remains/
https://rollingout.com/2026/10/10/tornado-warnings-georgia-south-carolina/
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hurricanes and frens
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/live-news/live-at-least-4-dead-as-isaias-leaves-widespread-damage-tornado-and-flood-threats-continue/1943589
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/category-4-hurricane-simon-to-bring-destructive-winds-and-life-threatening-flooding-to-mexico/1945092
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/rachel-to-drench-southwestern-us-flash-flooding-to-threaten-lives-property/1945104
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/isaias-remnants-sweep-east-washout-northeast-mid-atlantic
https://www.capitalweather.com/isaiass-remnants-are-headed-for-dc-heres-how-much-rain-to-expect/
https://www.surfer.com/news/hurricane-rachel-newport-beach-flooding
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earthquakes
https://english.anf-news.com/ecology/mining-project-in-kasor-could-trigger-landslides-and-earthquakes-says-report-87629
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/news/376183/Magnitude-36-earthquake-hits-34-miles-northwest-of-Chase-Alaska-early-morning.html
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/1049985/m3-8-earthquake-strikes-near-whites-city-new-mexico/
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/1051109/peru-earthquake-magnitude-5-2-quake-strikes-near-camana
https://menafn.com/1111790610/57-Magnitude-Earthquake-Strikes-Indonesia
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-troops-airlift-panama-earthquake/
https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/update-on-the-m77-earthquake-in-panama
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volcanoes
https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/unterhaltung/reisen/mayon-volcano-records-strombolian-activity-on-11-october/70290841
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/1005490/kanlaon-volcano-ash-emission-observed-after-explosive-eruption/story/
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dailys
https://schumannresonance.today/
https://www.solarham.com/
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
https://www.weather.gov/
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/375895/Volcano-earthquake-report-2026-10-11.html
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=11&month=10&year=2026
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https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/swamp-like-colors-on-the-moon-new-nasa-report-reveals-strange-sights-from-artemis-ii-mission-space-photo-of-the-week
moar
https://mashable.com/science/nasa-artemis-ii-astronauts-see-moon-impact-flashes
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6139450-nasa-moon-mission-partnerships/
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2109069137813422300
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2109032946749284614
'Swamp-like colors' on the moon: New NASA report reveals strange sights from Artemis II mission — Space photo of the week
October 11, 2026
What color is the moon? Ask an Earthling, and you'll get a predictably monochromatic answer: white or gray.
But ask the four crewmembers of NASA's Artemis II mission — who spent nearly seven hours circling the moon from just 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) from the lunar surface this April — and you'll wonder if they're talking about the same dusty satellite we can see from Earth.
Yellow, brown, green, blue and tan features fan across vast volcanic plains and lurk at the edges of ominous craters, according to the crew's in-the-moment observations, which were shared this week in NASA's Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report.
The 130-page document catalogs everything crewmembers Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen saw during their historic close flyby of the moon on April 6, drawing from 814 gigabytes of photo, video and audio recordings taken from the Orion crew capsule.
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission saw surprising "jaundiced yellow" and "swampy green" colors on the moon during their close lunar flyby, a new report reveals.
This rainbow of lunar color represents distinct geological features that could inform future missions on where to land and where to explore as the world's space agencies race to set up a permanent presence on the moon.
One spot that particularly enthralled the astronauts (and is featured in the image above) is the Aristarchus Plateau — a broad, elevated region on the northwestern edge of the moon's nearside.
The region hosts one of the moon's densest collections of ancient volcanic features, including swaths of dark lava deposits and colorful volcanic glasses.
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Koch, mission specialist for Artemis II, was shocked to see distinct yellow shades in the region; she likened the plateau to "a yellow snow-capped mountain," with sunlight-reflecting craters providing the bright "snow." She went on to call the region "a jaundiced cheek of the Moon."
"There are so many colors now," Glover, Artemis II's pilot, added while photographing the area. "There's also a green. I see brown, especially Aristarchus and north toward the north pole. … It kind of flows down from the north in brown streaks."
According to the report authors, these colorful hues "could be associated with orange (titanium-rich) and green (magnesium-rich) glass beads respectively," similar to volcanic glass beads collected by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions on separate parts of the moon.
"Chaos across the entire area"
Another colorful patch of the lunar surface that caught the crew's attention was Orientale Basin — a huge, young and multiringed impact crater that's about three times as wide as Massachusetts, according to NASA.
Straddling the moon's near and far sides, this massive bull's-eye is rarely visible from Earth, but it dominated the crewmembers' field of view as they orbited around the side of the moon.
"It has just created chaos across that entire area," Wiseman, commander for the mission, said at the time.
When flying over this sprawling basin, the crew noted gray, brown, tan and green below.
The largest, outermost ring in the basin contained "almost swamp-like colors," Koch reported, while Glover spotted what looked like "dusted peaks" and "white on the very edges of [the mountains], the spines, the ridgebacks."
Chains of craters parading away from the impact site looked "like bubbles rising from a team of scuba divers below," Koch added.
While these may sound like off-the-cuff observations, the Artemis II crew spent more than two years training to study and describe the moon's geology.
Their regimen included visiting craters on Earth, taking lessons individually and in classrooms, conducting simulated flybys and, according to the report, bringing "self-selected reference materials" into the Orion capsule to read on the way to the moon.
Thanks to this training, the crew's observations provided a wealth of scientific information that no autonomous camera or orbiter could, the report said.
"The Artemis II mission demonstrated the exceptional value of human observation and cognition as scientific assets in planetary exploration," the report authors concluded.
"Unlike cameras, which capture isolated moments and often narrow subsets of a scene, human observers continuously interpret their surroundings, integrating realtime visual perception with contextual understanding."
Or, to put that in Glover's more relatable words to mission control, "It's quite a wicked view."
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US astronomers track Earth-like cloud changes on world 7.5 light-years away
Oct 11, 2026 09:15 AM EST
The Webb telescope separates shifting water clouds from gases rising below.
Water clouds are growing thicker and thinner on a frigid world just 7.5 light-years from Earth, giving astronomers a direct view of changing weather beyond the solar system.
A team led by Brittany Miles at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf, for 11 hours.
Collecting a spectrum every 15 minutes, the researchers distinguished shifting cloud cover from gases rising out of deeper atmospheric layers.
Watching water clouds change
WISE 0855 sits near the boundary between brown dwarfs and giant planets. Brown dwarfs lack sufficient mass to ignite as stars and instead emit faint light from heat left over after their formation.
At about twice Jupiter’s mass and nearly the same size, WISE 0855 resembles a free-floating giant planet. Its temperature is roughly 265 kelvins, or 17°F, placing it at the coldest end of the known brown dwarf population.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to confirm that water clouds are becoming thinner and thicker on a nearby world,” University of Arizona researcher Brittany Miles said.
“Before JWST, we only had photometry, which mixed up the effects of clouds, chemistry, and temperature all together. Now we can actually distinguish them,” she added.
As the object rotates, regions with different cloud cover and temperatures come into view.
Webb’s medium-resolution spectrograph tracked these variations across individual molecular features, allowing the team to separate atmospheric signals that earlier observations mixed together.
Deep gases reveal atmospheric mixing
The observations revealed at least two processes operating simultaneously. Water clouds at high altitudes changed thickness, while convection carried chemical gases upward from deeper layers.
Alongside temperature variations associated with rotation, the instrument detected a rhythmic, wavelike signal linked to carbon monoxide and phosphine.
Heat inside the brown dwarf churns these gases upward, connecting its deeper atmosphere with the layers astronomers can observe.
A similar process occurs on Jupiter, where convective mixing brings gases from hot, deep layers into the visible atmosphere.
Known as disequilibrium chemistry, this behavior has previously been observed in brown dwarfs. Tracking its variations in real time across individual molecules adds another dimension.
“We’re seeing water clouds getting thicker and thinner, and deep gases rising and falling, and we can actually watch them change in real time,” Miles said.
A connection to giant planets
The findings also offer a way to understand atmospheres beyond WISE 0855. Clouds, convection and chemistry link this cold object’s behavior to processes operating on Jupiter.
“Even though brown dwarfs are not true planets, they exhibit planet-like behavior,” Miles said.
Those similarities could help researchers interpret gas giant exoplanets observed with Webb, despite differences between individual worlds.
Miles is looking toward additional baseline observations to clarify WISE 0855’s rotation and the three-dimensional movement of its atmosphere.
Longer monitoring could sharpen the picture of how its clouds and gases change together.
https://interestingengineering.com/space/us-webb-telescope-brown-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20664
moar general space
https://www.space.com/stargazing/astrophotography/astrophotographer-captures-110-galaxies-star-clusters-and-nebulas-in-stunning-352-hour-mosaic-photo
https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/mysterious-10-minute-x-ray-burst-from-a-distant-galaxy-may-have-come-from-2-dead-stars-colliding
https://www.gbnews.com/science/space-breakthrough-black-holes-dimension
https://gagadget.com/en/729630-whiskey-from-space-sierra-spaces-ghost-drops-packages-from-orbit-in-90-minutes/
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/11/esa-director-general-reveals-10bn-plan-to-get-to-space-without-nasa
moar international space
https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/space-power-the-invisible-force-behind-modern-operations/
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/honda-wants-to-put-a-robotic-lab-assistant-on-future-commercial-space-stations
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/6242385-shenzhou-23-crew-conduct-space-science-experiments-in-orbit-trainings
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-11/S-African-space-agency-CEO-expects-to-expand-cooperation-with-China-1R6DQhuqwp2/p.html
ESA director general reveals €10bn plan to get to space without NASA
11/10/2026 - 7:00 GMT+2
The space industry, currently valued at €600 billion, is expected to grow by 10% a year, according to European Space Agency (ESA) director general Josef Aschbacher. He spoke to the Big Question about how Europe can benefit from this booming industry.
The European Space Agency received record budget commitments of more than €22 billion from member states at its ministerial council meeting in 2025, a 32% increase on 2022.
Member states also gave ESA a historic mandate to use space technology for non-aggressive security and defence, including technologies to monitor external borders.
With that backing, ESA director general Josef Aschbacher wants Europe to take its next big step: developing the ability to launch its own astronauts into space.
In the latest episode of The Big Question, Josef sat down with Hannah Brown to discuss Europe’s independent future in space.
‘Why don’t we do it ourselves?’
Since its founding in 1975 (and its first astronaut mission in 1983), the European Space Agency has relied on international partners, including NASA and Russia, for astronaut launches.
And while this arrangement has worked for all this time, geopolitical tensions are pushing Europe to seek an alternative.
Only the US, China and Russia have the capability to launch astronauts into space. But political tensions with China and Russia leave ESA reliant on the US.
And in recent years, NASA has partnered with SpaceX to launch astronauts into space. One way or another, today, ESA astronauts travel to space aboard a US spacecraft.
“SpaceX has already announced that they want to decommission Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon (the crew vehicles that bring the astronauts to space) probably around 2029,” Josef explained.
“That means in a few years, we will not have at least this capability available anymore. There may be others coming up, which we do not know today.”
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This leaves Europe facing uncertainty over how to get its astronauts into space in the future.
To ensure reliable access and support investment in European industry, Josef is developing a plan for Europe to strengthen its position as a global space power by gaining the ability to launch its own astronauts.
Is space autonomy good for the European economy?
Of course, this won’t happen overnight and it needs political approval from ESA’s member states to secure funding.
Here’s how it might work.
Europe isn’t starting completely from scratch. It already has strong technological capabilities and world-leading programmes like Copernicus (Earth observation) and Galileo (satellite navigation constellation), as well as a talented workforce.
But Europe lacks its own crew vehicle and recovery system, in other words the means to get astronauts up there and bring them safely back to Earth.
Josef estimated that with a budget of around €10 billion, ESA could develop these independent capabilities in the next 10 years.
And yes, €10 billion is an enormous amount of money, but what’s the alternative?
ESA is facing the prospect of spending billions of euros in the coming years either way. The question is how to turn that spending into an investment in Europe’s space industry rather than simply a cost.
The International Space Station is essentially a floating laboratory where ESA does much of its vital science. After its decommission in 2032, this is likely to be replaced by a commercial space station.
Without its independent access to space, Europe will have to continue to rely on buying seats aboard US spacecraft with uncertain availability and then rent facilities aboard commercial space stations for research.
Josef estimated that this would come at a cost of around €5 billion over the next 10 years. “But the money is lost, or lost in the sense it's being spent not in Europe.
So I'd rather invest this funding in Europe, strengthen our industry, increase the autonomy of Europe in this domain,” Josef explained.
But he stressed this would not mean an end to international collaboration for Europe. “[We could] even offer a seat maybe to our friends and colleagues from Japan or Australia or some other countries, and I think this is also something that Europe could consider to build up its own strength, its autonomy, not to isolate, not at all - the opposite, but to be a strong partner internationally to other countries and other agencies.”
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Russia and Ukraine agree to energy ceasefire – Trump
11 Oct, 2026 14:39 | Updated 11 Oct, 2026 15:26
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has demanded a 60-day ceasefire to hold presidential elections
US President Donald Trump has said Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an immediate energy ceasefire.
The announcement comes just days after Trump’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders agreed on a deal aimed at easing the global fuel crisis through Russian diesel exports.
“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday, adding that “both parties have agreed” and urging Moscow and Kiev not to “break it.”
Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky later confirmed on X that he discussed Trump’s announcement with NATO chief Mark Rutte, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb, adding that Kiev supports the initiative.
On Friday, Trump and Putin held a phone call, shortly after which the US Treasury Department announced a temporary waiver of sanctions on Russian diesel, allowing the fuel to be sold, delivered, and imported into the US until April 7, 2027.
According to Trump, Moscow agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel, followed by another 500,000 metric tons in November and one million more shortly thereafter.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak also confirmed the figures and said Moscow would begin lifting diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule “immediately.”
The US president allegedly struck a deal with Moscow after Zelensky ignored Washington’s requests to stop strikes on Russian oil refineries, Axios reported on Saturday.
Trump has blamed Ukraine, and Zelensky personally, for exacerbating the global fuel crisis, saying that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries have driven up fuel prices, including for American consumers.
On Saturday, Trump once again accused Zelensky of seeking to “make problems for the world” and ignoring US requests, suggesting that it was “time for Ukraine to get a new president.”
The Ukrainian leader hit back by demanding a two-month-long total ceasefire to hold the vote.
“If President Trump really wants to have some changes during elections… please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days off. Total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections,” he told ABC on Sunday.
Russia considers Zelensky illegitimate, as his presidential term expired more than two years ago and he has not called a new election, citing martial law.
Ukraine has ramped up long-range strikes on targets inside Russia, including civilian and energy infrastructure such as oil refineries, amid continued setbacks at the front. Zelensky has recently threatened to intensify attacks on Russian refineries in particular.
Moscow has denounced the attacks as acts of terrorism and vowed to intensify strikes on Ukrainian military-related facilities, including drone and missile warehouses, while maintaining that it never targets civilians.
https://www.rt.com/news/647045-russia-ukraine-energy-ceasefire-trump/
https://www.rt.com/news/647031-ukraine-should-elect-new-president/
https://www.rt.com/news/647036-musk-zelensky-gone-too-far/
moar RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/647037-melania-alyoski-humanitarian-lantratova/
https://www.rt.com/news/647042-ukraine-secret-cargo-scandal-austria/
https://www.rt.com/news/647021-pasta-us-russia-diesel-deal/
Ukraine targets another major Russian tech site as drone strikes Intensify
Oct 11, 2026, 17:23:57 IST
Yandex’s data center services in Russia’s Vladimir region have been shut down following a drone attack, amid a series of strikes on data infrastructure on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Yandex, a Russian AI and technology company, said on Sunday that its infrastructure had been damaged in a drone attack, resulting in a complete shutdown of its data centre services in the Vladimir region.
Reports suggest that no one was injured in the attack, but services in the area have been disrupted. The region has witnessed recurring attacks over the past few days.
On Friday, Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia’s AI development and is sometimes dubbed “Russia’s Google”, said its data centre in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, had been struck by Ukrainian drones and partially put out of action.
A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down Yandex’s data hub in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two of the company’s three supercomputers used to develop its AI models were housed.
In the past, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the attacks were in response to weeks of Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
Both sides have stepped up attacks on infrastructure in recent months as the war drags on. Kyiv has said that its strikes are aimed at sites that are integral to Moscow’s revenue generation.
Russian strikes on Kyiv
Last month, Russian drones struck Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data centre. The strikes also caused internet outages affecting about 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
Moscow attributed the attacks to its claim that the data centres were being used by Ukrainian military intelligence. In the aftermath of the attacks, Ukraine accused Moscow of targeting civilian infrastructure.
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/ukraine-targets-another-major-russian-tech-site-as-drone-strikes-intensify-14052003.html
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/11/russias-yandex-says-data-center-in-vladimir-shut-down-after-drone-attack-a93942
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers
other Russia and Ukraine
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/drones-knock-out-70-of-volgograd-oil-refinery-s-capacity/
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russian-air-defense-position-catches-fire-in-sochi-after-drone-attack/
https://united24media.com/world/suspected-drone-explodes-in-moldova-despite-no-recorded-airspace-violation-23328
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/86731
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-10-11/live-updates-911253
other Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434436
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/trump-forces-netanyahu-to-strike-iran-alone-idf-warns-of-heavy-iranian-missile-response/videoshow/134865832.cms
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-shin-bet-say-they-struck-hamas-infrastructure-across-gaza-including-three-weapons-depots/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434430
https://vinnews.com/2026/10/11/idf-and-isa-eliminate-hamas-nukhba-platoon-commander-involved-in-october-7-kissufim-raid/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-idf-searches-for-an-unidentified-aerial-object-that-crossed-from-lebanon-into-western-galilee
https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/idf-moves-yellow-line-barriers-westward-in-eastern-gaza-city-54257
Live Updates: IDF strikes Hamas terrorists, infrastructure in Gaza, Houthis warn against using Saudi airports
October 11, 7:13 PM
Israel Police thwart 'imminent' terror attack near Jerusalem • Trump weighs joining Saudis against Houthis • Tanker damaged after being hit in Strait of Hormuz
October 11, 7:13 PM
Iran says US response to its proposal to reopen Hormuz was 'insufficient', state media reports
The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei said that the United States' reply to Iran's seven conditions to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz was "insufficient," Iranian state media reported on Sunday.
Washington needs to clarify the issues that remain unclear to Tehran, Iran's security chief added.
October 11, 7:10 PM
Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for Riyadh airport attack on Saturday
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility in a televised speech for Saturday’s attack on Riyadh's international airport that killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others.
October 11, 6:05 PM
IDF reveals footage showing armed Hamas terrorists using Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital as op. center
"The hospital and its surrounding area have been used by Hamas and the PIJ over the past few years to advance terror plots against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," the military said.
The IDF released footage on Sunday that appears to show Hamas terrorists operating in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
According to the IDF, the footage shows how the terror group uses the hospital's grounds as an operations center.
The military said that the footage shows that Hamas is still exploiting the presence of patients, medical staff, and civilians as human shields, which is a violation of international law.
"The hospital and its surrounding area have been used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) over the past few years to advance terror plots against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," the military said. "This was done while exploiting a medical facility and despite repeated calls by Israel and the IDF to refrain from the military use of medical facilities."
This is a developing story.
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October 11, 4:44 PM
Strike reported on Yemeni Sanaa airport, Houthi-run TV claims
Yemen's Houthi-run Al Masirah TV claimed that Saudi Arabia carried out a strike on Yemen's Sanaa International Airport on Sunday.
There was no immediate Saudi comment.
October 11, 4:43 PM
IDF kills Nukhba terrorist who participated in infiltrating Kissufim on Oct. 7
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) killed a platoon commander of Hamas's Nukhba Forces last Monday, the military confirmed on Sunday.
The terrorist, who was identified as Hisham Jamal Muhammad Abu Ghala, participated in the October 7 massacre, including conducting raids on Kibbutz Kissufim, the military said.
October 11, 4:29 PM
Israel’s election race remains deadlocked as Ben-Gvir releases prison footage
The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Gadi Zaig - the top stories, clear and concise.
Israel’s election race remains deadlocked as Ben-Gvir releases prison footage
October 11, 4:19 PM
Tanker damaged after being hit in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says
A tanker heading outbound through the Strait of Hormuz was struck on its port side by an unidentified projectile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Sunday.
It said the strike damaged the vessel but left all crew safe and caused no reported environmental impact.
October 11, 3:43 PM
IDF strikes Hamas infrastructure across Gaza Strip
The IDF struck several areas in Gaza on Sunday, targeting Hamas terrorist infrastructure, weapons, rocket launchers, and storage sites.
A rocket launcher site in the area of Al-Furqan was destroyed in the strikes, while an observation command center in the Daraj Tuffah area and three storage facilities in the Gaza Strip were also targeted.
October 11, 3:41 PM
Border Police find dummy bombs attached to Palestinian flags in West Bank
Border Police officers found two dummy bombs attached to Palestinian flags in the West Bank during an operation over the weekend.
The officers cleared the sites and opened an investigation into the incident.
October 11, 2:51 PM
Security forces arrest two suspects on suspicion of involvement in violent incident in Aqraba
Two individuals were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a violent incident in the town of Aqraba last month, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police announced in a joint statement on Sunday.
The investigation is proceeding in coordination with the Shin Bet and the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division.
On October 26, the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court extended the gag order on the investigation.
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Drone strikes reportedly hit Mt. Horeb camp in Myanmar
October 11, 2026
Drone attacks reportedly targeted the headquarters of the NSCN-IM splinter faction in Leshi Township of Myanmar’s Naga Self-Administered Zone in the early hours of Sunday, causing damage to the camp and leaving some individuals injured.
An official of the NSCN-K/YA said the Mt. Horeb camp had been attacked repeatedly between 2 am and 4 am, as per a report.
“It is learned that between 02:00 and 04:00 AM this morning, the headquarters of the faction led by U Hanshi, which split from NSCN-IM, was attacked by drones no fewer than 20 times,” the official said.
Reports claimed that around 60 bombs exploded during the assault, with some detonating mid-air or in trees and others striking the camp directly.
Further, parts of the camp were damaged, while attributing the absence of casualties to what it described as “divine intervention”, reports added.
The Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim, Provisional Government, condemned the attack and alleged that it could be linked to a proxy war being waged by India.
The allegation has not been independently verified, and the circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear.
The identity of those responsible for the strikes has not been established, and further details are awaited.
https://nenews.in/neighbours/drone-strikes-reportedly-hit-mt-horeb-camp-in-myanmar/67388/
Six Turkish Drones Involved in Greek Airspace Violations Over Aegean
October 11, 2026
Six Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were involved in multiple airspace violations over the Aegean Sea on Saturday, October 10, according to Greece’s Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA).
Greek military authorities reported eight violations of air traffic regulations within the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) and five violations of Greek national airspace.
The incidents occurred across three separate areas of the Aegean, including the northeastern, central and southeastern sectors.
Greek Military Intercepts Turkish Drones
According to the Greek military, the Turkish drones were detected, identified and intercepted in accordance with international regulations and established operational procedures.
The latest incidents add to ongoing tensions between Greece and Turkey over airspace and territorial disputes in the Aegean, despite both countries being NATO allies.
Grecian Delight supports Greece
The reported violations also come just days after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized Greece’s importance as a strategic partner of the United States and a key NATO ally during his visit to Athens.
Longstanding Disputes Over Aegean Airspace
Athens has repeatedly raised concerns over Turkish military activity in the Aegean, maintaining that unauthorized flights into Greek national airspace constitute violations of its sovereignty.
Turkey and Greece have longstanding disagreements over the extent of national airspace and the interpretation of aviation regulations in the Aegean, issues that have periodically contributed to tensions between the neighboring countries.
Greek military authorities routinely monitor and respond to such incidents, following established procedures for identifying and intercepting aircraft operating in disputed or restricted airspace.
https://greekreporter.com/2026/10/11/turkish-drones-violate-greek-airspace/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/worlds-first-military-drones-older-than-you-think-hk-101126
The World’s First Military Drones Are Older Than You Think
October 11, 2026
The BQ-7 drone—a remotely-controlled B-17 Flying Fortress bomber loaded with explosives—required human pilots for takeoff and early flight, a mission that sometimes led to tragedy.
Long before the age of modern one-way attack drones like the Shahed-136 or the LUCAS, the US military experimented with turning entire bombers into flying explosives—effectively borrowing the “kamikaze” concept from the Japanese, minus the pilot.
Even more remarkably, these experiments took place at the same time as the kamikazes in the Pacific.
From 1944 onward, the US Army Air Forces launched Operation Aphrodite, a plan to convert damaged or antiquated B-17 Flying Fortress bombers into enormous radio-controlled flying bombs.
In the same manner as a Japanese kamikaze, the aircraft would be packed with explosives and flown directly into a heavily fortified German target.
Because the flight was intended as a one-way trip, and had no pilot onboard, the aircraft could be unarmored, lack machine guns and other defenses, and use worn-out engines and equipment.
Despite the technologically ambitious nature of the program, the radio-controlled technology was unreliable, and the program was written off as a failure.
Yet with 80 years of hindsight, it now seems to have predicted a major trend of modern warfare.
The BQ-7: The World’s First Remote-Controlled Military Aircraft
By the time of World War II, the idea of using radio waves to control the speed and direction of aircraft was not entirely new.
As early as 1909, French engineers had flown a miniature aircraft using wireless telegraphy at an exhibition in Paris, and in the late 1930s, brothers Walter and William Good had built the “Big Guff,” a successful remote-controlled model aircraft.
Still, it was one thing to build a small aircraft that one could fly overhead; it was another to adapt a full-size aircraft to remote control and send it off on a mission, when the distances involved would be much greater and feedback would not be immediate.
For this reason, the idea of remotely controlling aircraft sat dormant for much of the war.
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By 1944, however, Allied forces were confronting heavily fortified German military installations, finding that conventional bombing struggled against some of the Germans’ most deeply protected structures.
Military planners called for a weapon capable of delivering an enormous explosive charge directly into a target—and the B-17 offered a useful starting point.
Thousands of the bombers had been manufactured, and some older airframes were already worn out or unsuitable for conventional combat operations. Rather than scrap them, the planners proposed turning them into giant guided bombs against Germany.
If the weapon could be used effectively in Germany, the thinking went, it could be turned against Japan, which was farther away and harder to target.
The modified B-17s received the designation BQ-7, after being stripped of their guns, armor, and much of the normal internal fittings. Aggressive reductions in weight allowed for the installation of about 20,000 pounds of explosives.
To control the BQ-7 from afar, radio-control equipment was connected to the flight controls, throttles, and autopilot, while television cameras transmitted images to accompanying control aircraft that could adjust their flight paths from a closer distance than an airbase hundreds of miles away.
One camera allowed operators to see the flight instruments while another provided forward-looking views. Meanwhile, a separate aircraft, often a B-17 control plane, would guide the drone toward the target.
In all, the concept was remarkably sophisticated for 1944—perhaps too sophisticated. Radio-control technology specifically wasn’t reliable enough to handle complete flight independently.
So the BQ-7 needed a two-man volunteer crew for takeoff and the initial climb. The crew would start the engines, take off, establish altitude and heading, activate the control system, arm the explosive payload, and then transfer control to the accompanying aircraft.
The volunteer crew would then bail out by parachute, while the BQ-7 would continue toward Germany under remote control. The dangers of this setup were obvious; for the first part of the flight, the volunteer crew was effectively sitting inside an enormous flying bomb.
Why Operation Aphrodite Failed
Aphrodite began combat operations in August 1944, launching from bases in England towards German targets.
These missions laid bare the limitations of the technology, and the missions consistently failed: the BQ-7s would lose radio contact, malfunction, crash, be shot down by enemy air defenses, and miss the targets.
The remote control was extremely primitive relative to today’s technology, and operators had limited situational awareness.
The television systems likewise offered only poor images, making it next to impossible to aim the bomber-turned-drone with any degree of accuracy.
Of the 15 missions that Aphrodite aircraft were sent on between August 1944 and January 1945, none were successful; the BQ-7 never achieved a documented destruction of any intended target.
Moreover, despite the promise of a remote-controlled bomb decreasing Allied air casualties, the program proved remarkably deadly, with around a half-dozen pilots dying in failed parachute jumps or losing control of the aircraft.
In one particularly notorious incident on August 12, 1944, one of the aircraft exploded prematurely over England, killing pilots Joseph Kennedy Jr—the son of Kennedy family patriarch Joseph Kennedy and older brother of future president John F. Kennedy—and Wilford Willy. In January 1945, the USAAF suspended the project, citing its unreliability. It made plans to resume the flights in March and April, but the imminent end of the war ultimately headed these plans off.
Operation Aphrodite was laudable for its ambition and ingenuity, but failed because of the technological limitations of the time. Still, it produced arguably the world’s first one-way attack drone—and provided a model for other aviation pioneers to follow.
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