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)
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 7, 2013.(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) passes the battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) January 11, 2005 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (Devin Wright/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)