NASA has announced it will hold a teleconference to reveal the new discovery made by the Kepler space telescope.
The conference will take place on Thursday, December 14 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm UK (December 15 at 5am AET) and will stream live on NASA's website. Key researchers will discuss what has been learned using Google's machine learning approach to artificial intelligence to analyze data from Kepler.
Participants in the briefing include NASA Astrophysics Division director Paul Hertz, astronomer and NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Vanderburg, Kepler project scientist Jessie Dotson, and Google AI senior software engineer Christopher Shallue.
The planet-hunting Kepler telescope launched in 2009 and has delivered a plethora of new information and discoveries. Thanks to Kepler, astronomers went from being unsure of the number of planets beyond our solar system to believing there may be at least one planet for every star.
While finishing its main mission in 2012, the telescope has continued to collect data, and in 2014 began the extended K2 objective to search for planets outside our solar system. This has afforded new opportunities to research not only exoplanets, but also young stars, supernovae, and other celestial bodies.
Back in our solar system, the Cassini probe recently completed its mission delivering stunning images from its 19 years of studying Saturn, and new evidence suggests there might not be water on Mars after all.
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