Since President Donald Trump announced last month that the United States Navy's planned "Golden Fleet" would include a new class of battleships, critics have cited numerous reasons why the warships ...

Everyone who's anyone in defense should profit off the new Trump-class battleships, but Huntington Ingalls and General Dynamics may make the most money of all. President Donald Trump is remaking the U ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. On Saturday, the U.S. Navy's USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) aided in the ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction. This innovation solves ...

Amtrak launched its new NextGen Acela trains in August 2025, and I finally had the chance to try these new trains on a one-way trip from New York’s Penn Station to Washington’s Union Station. The new ...

In the designation BBG(X), BB means battleship, G means guided missile ship (i.e., a ship with a medium- or long-range air defense system), and (X) means the design of the ship has not yet been fully ...

The second ball drop will honor America's semiquincentennial year. After the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2026, revelers ringing in the new year in Times Square got a second treat as red, white ...

Liberal arts has long been the bread and butter of New England education. In a region home to some 250 higher education institutions, small liberal arts colleges stand in a league of their own, ...

If you've been enjoying the wealth of Star Trek content that's been steadily popping up on Paramount+ over the past several years — Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Picard, just to name a few — we've ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published Aug. 13, 2025, and has been updated to include new text and illustrations featured in the January 2026 issue of Astronomy. Using an artificial ...