NASA announced the open-source release of ExoMiner++:
NASA announced the open-source release of ExoMiner++ advancing the search for planets beyond our solar system.
About: ExoMiner++ is a deep-learning AI model developed by NASA to detect exoplanets from space-telescope data, serving as the advanced successor to the earlier ExoMiner system.It analyses stellar brightness over time, identifying characteristic dips caused when a planet transits in front of its host star.A key challenge it addresses is distinguishing real planetary signals from false positives, such as binary stars or background objects that can mimic planetary transits..Unlike black-box AI models, ExoMiner++ is explainable, providing astronomers with a confidence score and clear reasoning behind each classification.ExoMiner++ is trained on both Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) datasets, allowing it to analyse many more stars simultaneously and significantly scale up detection capability.
