{"id":238414,"date":"2026-05-03T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/powerful-ai-finds-100-hidden-planets-in-nasa-data-including-rare-and-extreme-worlds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:35:07","slug":"powerful-ai-finds-100-hidden-planets-in-nasa-data-including-rare-and-extreme-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/powerful-ai-finds-100-hidden-planets-in-nasa-data-including-rare-and-extreme-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260502233926.htm\">Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260502233926.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260502233926.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 00:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.sciencedaily.com\">www.sciencedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"first\">Astronomers at the University of Warwick have confirmed more than 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly identified worlds, using a new artificial intelligence system. The team applied this tool to data from NASA&#8217;s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission that scans the sky for slight dips in starlight that occur when a planet crosses in front of its host star.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, published in MNRAS, are based on a detailed analysis of observations from more than 2.2 million stars gathered during TESS&#8217;s first four years. The researchers focused on planets that orbit very close to their stars, completing a full orbit in less than 16 days. This approach has produced one of the most precise measurements yet of how common these short-period planets are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Using our newly developed RAVEN pipeline, we were able to validate 118 new planets, and over 2,000 high-quality planet candidates, nearly 1,000 of them entirely new,&#8221; said first author Dr. Marina Lafarga Magro, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Warwick. &#8220;This represents one of the best characterized samples of close in planets and will help us identify the most promising systems for future study.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rare and Extreme Planet Types Identified<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly confirmed planets include several especially interesting categories. Some are ultra-short-period planets that circle their stars in under 24 hours. Others belong to the so-called &#8216;Neptunian desert,&#8217; a region where few planets are expected to exist based on current theories. The study also revealed tightly packed multi-planet systems, including previously unknown pairs of planets orbiting the same star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How RAVEN Improves Planet Detection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern planet-hunting missions often flag thousands of possible planets, but determining which signals are genuine remains difficult. Many false signals can mimic planets, including eclipsing binary stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenge lies in identifying if the dimming is indeed caused by a planet in orbit around the star or by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260502233926.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260502233926.htm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/1920\/ultra-short-period-planet.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238416,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238414\/revisions\/238416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}