AI spots 800 cosmic anomalies hiding in Hubble data
European Space Agency astronomers just deployed a neural network called AnomalyMatch across 35 years of Hubble archives. In just two and a half days, it plowed through nearly 100 million image cutouts to spot over 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies, from gravitational lenses to completely unclassifiable objects. Why it matters: AI is turning decades of dormant sky surveys into fresh scientific discoveries without requiring years of manual sorting.