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Machine learning is transforming the search for alien worlds, helping scientists find thousands of exoplanets hidden in Kepler's vast data.

TESS discovered 5,600+ exoplanets using transit photometry, revolutionizing our census of worlds and identifying prime targets for atmospheric study.

NASA's archive now lists more than 6,000 planets around other stars, almost all found without seeing them directly. Here's the physics that lets astronomers detect tiny worlds across thousands of light-years.