And we're tied, folks. Thanks to Google and some fancy artificial intelligence, we now know that our solar system is just slightly less unique than we may have thought. Scientists have discovered an ...

Every time we think we're in a class by ourselves, it's only a matter of time. Used to be our solar system had the most planets around a single star. But thanks to new data from NASA's Kepler ...

Artificial intelligence is now sorting through telescope data at a pace no human team could match, and the results go beyond ...

Using data obtained from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope combined with Google’s machine learning enabled the discovery of an eighth planet in the Kepler-90 system, a planetary system only 2,545 ...

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Eight planets circle our sun (sorry, Pluto), but our solar system is no longer unique in that number. NASA recently announced the discovery of an eighth planet circling the star Kepler-90, tying our ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time, eight planets have been found orbiting a distant star, Kepler-90, 2,545 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation, NASA announced Thursday. It is the first ...

A newfound exoplanet called Kepler-90i was discovered around a distant star. Scientists used machine learning technology from Google to examine Kepler data and spot telltale signs of exoplanets.

Every time we think we're in a class by ourselves, it's only a matter of time. Used to be our solar system had the most planets around a single star. But thanks to new data from NASA's Kepler ...