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)
Ed Ruscha's American Georges' Flag is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's, in New York, on November 8, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Members of the Peace Commission pose on either side of a Native American woman, wrapped in a blanket, during negotiations for the Treaty of Fort Laramie, at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868. (Alexander Gardner via Getty Images)
Ethnic Uyghur demonstrators take part in a protest against China near Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on October 1, 2023, China's National Day. (Yasin Akgul / AFP via Getty Images)
Employees work on the production line of medicine, at a factory, on January 12, 2023, in Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Artist David Hammon's African American Flag is exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, April 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The P4 laboratory, on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump stands with Ohio State Head Coach Ryan Day as he welcomes the 2025 College Football National Champions from Ohio State University to the White House during a ceremony on the south lawn on April 14, 2025. (Getty Images)