Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The ...

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

During the first 24 hours of the war in Iran, the United States used Maven Smart System (MSS) to help strike more than 1,000 targets, a tenfold increase over what was possible in the pre-MSS era.

U.S.-Iran Talks Israel-Lebanon Agreement Strait of Hormuz Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April 2026 security updates. As Microsoft confirmed last week, some admins may ...

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The veteran journalist Katrina Manson, who now covers defense tech for Bloomberg, spent much of the past few years asking precisely that question.

Pentagon and Palantir declined to comment on Maven's performance in the war with Iran Washington, United States: A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at the center of the US strikes against ...

In the Iran war the Pentagon is using an AI program that is potentially of the most consequential changes in modern warfare — Brendan SMIALOWSKI A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at 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 ...