Google AI models which helped NASA discover exoplanets, are now available for everyone- Technology News, Firstpost

A Google model based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) that helped NASA discover two exoplanets, is now available for researchers to process data from Kepler Space Telescope. With the discovery of an eighth planet, the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our solar system in number of planets. The TensorFlow model decoded massive sets of data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to discover two exoplanets last year, including one that has the first known eight-planet system like ours. One of the two newly-discovered planets is Kepler-90i -- a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days. This marked the discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth -- making it the first known eight-planet system outside of our own.