AI Identifies Star Systems With Planets That Could Host Life

AI Identifies Star Systems With Planets That Could Host Life

Researchers in Switzerland have built an AI model to uncover potentially habitable worlds that are hiding from view. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Astronomy and & Astrophysics, the machine learning algorithm identified 44 star systems that it suspects harbor Earth-like exoplanets we haven't detected yet, in a promising demonstration of an approach that could accelerate the search for planets teeming with life. It hasn't out…

Barnard's Star is located just 6 light-years from Earth, and until now almost nothing was known about its surroundings.