The number of extrasolar planets discovered is increasing, so that more than five thousand exoplanets have been confirmed to date.
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Better Offworld Droid Navigation: nuance: WayFASTER: a Self-Supervised Traversability Prediction for Increased Navigation Awareness
Accurate and robust navigation in unstructured environments requires fusing data from multiple sensors. Such fusion ensures that the robot is better aware of its surroundings, including areas of the environment […]
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Biological Research And Self-driving Labs In Deep Space Supported By Artificial Intelligence
Space biology research aims to understand fundamental effects of spaceflight on organisms, develop foundational knowledge to support deep space exploration, and ultimately bioengineer spacecraft and habitats to stabilize the ecosystem […]
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Tricorder Tech: An AI-Powered Hand Held Medical Device
Editor’s note: Even if you have watched a few Star Trek episodes you have no doubt seen a tricorder in use. Depending on the story it may be sed to […]
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FlopPITy: Enabling Self-consistent Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals With Machine Learning
Interpreting the observations of exoplanet atmospheres to constrain physical and chemical properties is typically done using Bayesian retrieval techniques.
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Google DeepMind Adds Nearly 400,000 New Compounds To Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project
Editor’s note: As we expand outward from Earth to other worlds we are almost certainly going to encounter things we did not expect to find – things that are unlikely […]
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Mapping “Brain Coral” Regions On Mars Using Deep Learning
One of the main objectives of the Mars Exploration Program is to search for evidence of past or current life on the planet. To achieve this, Mars exploration has been […]
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Constructing Impactful Machine Learning Research For Astronomy: Best Practices For Researchers And Reviewers
Machine learning has rapidly become a tool of choice for the astronomical community. It is being applied across a wide range of wavelengths and problems, from the classification of transients […]
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Developing An AI Method Of Identifying Life On Other Worlds
Humankind is looking for life on other planets, but how will we recognise it when we see it? Now a group of US scientists have developed an artificial-intelligence-based system which […]
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Did Life Exist On Mars? Other Planets? With AI’s Help, We May Know Soon
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets – “the holy grail of astrobiology.”