NASA has found ‘something big’ in space, and is set to announce it

American Space Agency NASA is set to stage a press conference after its planet-hunting telescope made a new breakthrough when it discovered something new in outer space.

Reports say after the discovery made by the Kepler space telescope operated by NASA, the space agency decided that its latest discovery is significant enough to bring with it a huge press conference.

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Very little further information was given about the announcement, which will take place on Thursday. But it will almost certainly relate to exoplanets – Earth-sized worlds that orbit around their own stars, and are our best hope of finding alien life.

The space agency said that the discovery was made with the help of Google artificial intelligence, which is being used to analyse the data sent down by the telescope.

By using machine learning provided by the tech giant, NASA hopes that it can pick through the possible planets more quickly and hopefully find life-supporting planets sooner.

 

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