Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers discover new planets
AI could help us discover planet nine, dark matter and more gravitational waves
By Abigail Beall
Sunday 17 December 2017
NASA/Wendy Stenzel
Forget self-driving cars and computers that can beat humans at chess, artificial intelligence is helping astronomers make huge steps towards solving some of the Universe’s biggest mysteries.
For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to discover two new exoplanets. One of the discoveries, made by Nasa’s Kepler mission, brings the Kepler-90 solar system to a total of 8 planets - the first solar system found with the same number as our own.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/why-artificial-intelligence-is-the-future-of-astronomy
