NASA could be about to make a significant announcement regarding its latest investigation into life outside our solar system.
The space agency has called a press conference this Thursday to announce a new discovery by its Kepler space telescope, which has been searching for habitable planets and alien life since 2009.
“The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google”, said NASA in a press release.
“Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence and demonstrates new ways of analysing Kepler data.”
While its primary mission is to look for exoplanets (a planet which orbits a star outside our solar system), it is also tasked with “studying young stars, supernovae and other cosmic phenomena”, according to NASA.
However, its decision to call a press conference suggests this could be a more significant discovery.
Kepler is NASA’s most successful planet discoverer, having identified over 2,500 exoplanets in its two missions over eight years.
It found the majority of them on its first mission, between 2009 and 2013, but has continued to find more in its extended K2 mission, which began in 2014.
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