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)
An intelligent robot copies the movement of a visitor wearing sensor suit at the 5G stand during "Expo 2019 Beijing" on April 29, 2019. (VCG/Getty Images)
With a rainbow serving as a backdrop in the sky, space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Stocktrek Images)
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang arrive for a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, August 2018. (Pool/Getty Images)
The Impossible Burger 2.0, the new version of the company's plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef is introduced at a press event during CES 2019 in Las Vegas on January 7, 2019. (ROBYN BECK/Getty Images)
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018. (NASA via Getty Images)