In a'transformational' discovery, scientists have discovered the strongest evidence of life on a distant alien planet. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found huge quantities of chemicals produced by life on Earth in the atmosphere of the planet K2-18b. According to scientists from the University of Cambridge, an'ocean that is teeming with life' is the best explanation for this stunning discovery. MailOnline has used AI to take scientists' best predictions and imagine what life might be like on K2-18b. The most likely scenario is that K2-18b's oceans are filled with something like phytoplankton - microscopic organisms that feed on the energy from the nearby star.

Artificial intelligence (AI) discovered more than 50 exoplanets. In the future, it is expected that machines will play a big role in helping humans in space exploration in the astronomy world. Fox News reported on the 1st (local time) that researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK have discovered 50 additional exoplanets by applying AI technology based on old data from NASA. The results of this study were published in a monthly report published by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). The researchers developed the algorithm data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which stopped working in 2018.

New Delhi: Utilising an Artificial Intelligence-based algorithm, Indian Astronomers have devised a new approach for identifying potentially habitable planets with a high probability. Since time immemorial, humanity has been looking at the cosmos and believing that other inhabited worlds are out there. Current estimates are that the number of planets in our Galaxy alone run into billions, possibly a number greater than the number of stars itself. The question that naturally arises is whether there are other life-harboring planets and if there is a way to predict which exoplanet can potentially harbour life? Of India, along with astronomers from BITS Pilani, Goa campus have devised a new approach -- an anomaly detection method -- by which they can identify potentially habitable ones with a high probability.

The search for'another Earth' has been a staple of science fiction for decades, and now a group of astronomers hope to discover one on our galactic doorstep. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system just over four light years from the Earth, split into a pair of sun-like stars known as AB, and a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri. So far planets have only been found orbiting Proxima Centauri, but experts from the University of Sydney and Breakthrough Initiatives believe they will find a world orbiting the larger binary pair using a new privately funded telescope. Known as the Toliman mission, it will launch in 2023 and scan Alpha Centauri AB for worlds in the habitable zone, where liquid water can flow on the surface. The team hope to be able to say whether there are habitable worlds orbiting either or both of the binary stars by the middle of this decade.

A stellar flare is a sudden flash of increased brightness on a star. Young stars are prone to these flares which can incinerate everything around them, including the atmospheres of nearby planets starting to form. Finding out how often young stars erupt can help scientists understand where to look for habitable planets. But until now, searching for these flares involved poring over thousands of measurements of star brightness variations, called'light curves', by eye. Now, an international team of scientists based in Australia and the USA have used machine learning to make the search faster and more effective.

NASA's next flagship telescope is the James Webb spacecraft, but the long-term direction of NASA's research remains uncertain. America's space agency has now turned to a team of expert astronomers to choose its eventual successor which will be built and sent into space in the 2030s. Four vastly different designs have been put forward which are designed to look for alien life, distant Earth-like worlds, black holes and the birth of new galaxies and high-energy gas disks. All four of the proposed missions look vastly different and the momentous decision will likely sculpt NASA's research for decades to come. Analysis of The Great Observatory programme in the 1970s gave the scientific community, and the wider world at large, access to analysis of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic light from Gamma rays to infrared radiation. LUVOIR will continue a mission similar to that which has been covered over the last two decades by Hubble and will study the first stars of the universe to find signs of life and the creation of worlds.