Google just helped NASA find an alien planet thousands of light-years from Earth

And we're tied, folks. 

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. 

So yeah, maybe we're not that special after all.

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...