Space: NASA AI Finds Eighth Planet Lurking In Kepler System

Machines find worlds in star data

Artificial intelligence looks set to play an important role in the discovery of planets beyond our solar system, writes Mark Cantrell , after NASA scientists used machine learning techniques to discover a previously overlooked world orbiting the Kepler-90 star

Image courtesy of: NASA/Wendy Stenzel

WHEN it comes to cosmic wonder, we can look but never touch. The universe has clearly evolved to taunt us: we keep on discovering all these tantalizing exo-planets, bu...