Thanks to Google and some fancy artificial intelligence, we now know that our solar system is just slightly less unique than we may have thought.*
Scientists have discovered an eighth planet circling the sunlike star Kepler-90, 2,545 light-years away. This means that our solar system and Kepler 90 are now tied for the most number of known planets within a star system.*
The newfound planet, named Kepler-90i, was found using machine learning technology from Google that effectively teach a computer to spot patterns in large datasets. Read more...