(CNN) — Iran warned the United States Tuesday not to return a U.S. aircraft carrier “to the Persian Gulf region.”
U.S. officials rejected the “warning” and another recent threat from Tehran that it could close the Strait of Hormuz. The White House and U.S. State Department called the latest threats signs that sanctions against Iran, the [...]

Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iran test-fired a long-range, shore-to-sea missile on Monday, the final day of its naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, state-run media reported.
The Ghader missile was fired during the “power” stage of the maneuvers, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. The test was successful, and the missile hit its intended [...]

Iran has successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air missile during military exercises in the Gulf, the official Irna news agency reports.
Iranian naval commander, Mahmoud Mousavi, was quoted as saying the missile was equipped with the “latest technology” and “intelligent systems”.
The test comes a day after he denied earlier state media reports that Iran had test-fired long-range [...]

(CNN) — A North Carolina man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to carry explosives through a security checkpoint at an airport in Midland, Texas, federal authorities said.
Trey Scott Atwater of Hope Mills was taken into federal custody Saturday morning after Transportation Security Administration agents spotted what they described as a suspicious item.The item was [...]

(CNN) — The first of twin research spacecraft entered the moon’s orbit Saturday, part of an effort to learn more about how it and other terrestrial bodies formed, NASA said.
The GRAIL-A — which launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on September 10, along with its sister spacecraft GRAIL-B — began a “lunar orbit insertion burn” at [...]

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(CNN) — China plans to put laboratories in space, collect samples from the moon and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to an ambitious plan released this week aimed at putting the country on the global map for space exploration.
China also plans to launch manned-vessels and freighters into space during [...]

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A rare - one -of-a-kind military prototype made a surprise stop at Rick Husband Amarillo International today. It’s called the Model 151 Ares and was designed as a proof-of concept demonstrator for the US Army’s requirements for a low-cost - fast and agile attack aircraft - a sort of mini A-10 Warthog [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) —
After battling for hours to extinguish a blaze aboard a nuclear submarine, Russian firefighters finally gained control of it early Friday by submerging the stricken vessel at a navy shipyard.Related
Television showed a giant plume of smoke above the yard in the Murmansk region of northern Russia as more than 100 firefighters struggled [...]