NASA has ended its attempts to reconnect with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft and begun decommissioning the orbiter, closing the book on a mission that spent over a ...

On June 3, 2026, NASA officially announced the end of its MAVEN mission (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN). This decision came after an anomaly that left the MAVEN spacecraft ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since September 2014. Credit: NASA/GSFC WASHINGTON — NASA has formally ended a Mars mission that has been out of contact for six months while the ...

On June 3, NASA officially said goodbye to its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, orbiter. The spacecraft spent more than a decade circling the Red Planet, gathering data on its ...

NASA officially declared its Mars MAVEN spacecraft dead on Wednesday, marking the end of a mission that was led by the University of Colorado Boulder for more than a decade. The MAVEN spacecraft, or ...

As the Pentagon expands Project Maven in military planning and targeting, the danger is not faster war, but a system where human judgment appears present while accountability becomes harder to trace.

In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input. By Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories ...

In the Iran war the Pentagon is using an AI program that is potentially of the most consequential changes in modern warfare – Copyright AFP Brendan SMIALOWSKI A ...

A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at the center of the US strikes against Iran and potentially one of the most consequential transformations of modern warfare. Project Maven is the ...

The rise of AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost? In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers ...