AI-Spy with My Little Eye
Crew members aboard the International Space Station collect imagery during studies like Crew Earth Observations and Hurricane-Visual, pointing cameras at interesting features on our planet. Once a picture is taken, …
Expertise Flows from Computer Cognition
Keeping the lights on in West Africa can be difficult, as the electricity market in the region is plagued with power shortages. While disparities exist, access has improved in the …
New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler’s Total Count
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a …
LLNL-led team uses machine learning to derive black hole motion from gravitational waves
The announcement that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves during the merger of two black holes sent ripples throughout the scientific community in 2016. The earthshaking …
You Can Help Train NASA’s Rovers to Better Explore Mars
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA’s spacecraft study the universe. But because all machine learning algorithms require training from humans, a recent project asks …
NASA Scientist Looks to AI, Lensing to Find Masses of Free-Floating Planets
Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that float freely through the galaxy as so-called …
Artificial Intelligence Helps Improve NASA’s Eyes on the Sun
A group of researchers is using artificial intelligence techniques to calibrate some of NASA’s images of the Sun, helping improve the data that scientists use for solar research. The new …
Researchers Hunt for New Particles in Particle Collider Data
In physicists’ ongoing search for new particles, it’s always easiest to find them when you have an idea where to look. Theories can serve to narrow and focus those searches …
AI Finds More Than 1,200 Gravitational Lensing Candidates
A research team with participation by Berkeley Lab physicists has used artificial intelligence to identify more than 1,200 possible gravitational lenses – objects that can be powerful markers for the …
Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses
Like crystal balls for the universe’s deeper mysteries, galaxies and other massive space objects can serve as lenses to more distant objects and phenomena along the same path, bending light …