Google's AI found two new exoplanets

The Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at finding exoplanets. Researchers have already used the NASA spacecraft to discover more than 3,000 different exoplanets--including several this year that could be home to life (or even us). Leave it to Google to make Kepler even better. Chris Shallue, a senior software engineer at Google, teamed up with Andrew Vanderburg, a NASA astrophysicist currently at the University of Texas at Austin, to teach a computer how to find signs of exoplanet existence that researchers using Kepler previously missed. When scientists hunt for an exoplanet, they look for dips in the brightness of far-away points in space that otherwise look like stars.