US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility, which will house a compact fusion experiment device, undergoes its first exterior lighting test on September 9, 2026, in Hefei, China. (Getty Images)
United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a joint press conference after talks on September 6, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Engineers work outside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, on September 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
Iran exhibits its missiles, satellite-carrying rockets, and air defense systems in Tehran, Iran, on October 17, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Ukrainian military holds a flag of Ukraine as they receive equipment from Lithuania on November 4, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ihor Kuznietsov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)