NASA TO HOLD MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MAKES PLANET-HUNTING BREAKTHROUGH

The Kepler space telescope is operated by NASA to discover other earths, some of which could support life. And its latest discovery is significant enough to bring with it a huge press conference. Very little further information was given about the announcement, which will take place on Thursday. But it will almost certainly relate to exoplanets -- Earth-sized worlds that orbit around their own stars, and are our best hope of finding alien life. The space agency said that the discovery was made with the help of Google artificial intelligence, which is being used to analyse the data sent down by the telescope.