NASA has approved a formal request for telescope time to verify the findings after reviewing the researcher's data. This next step will provide the observational verification needed to confirm the existence of the planet.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Claude Code Finds Planet Candidate in 7 Years of NASA Data
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P. Rabtsevich wrote more than 1,000 scripts to scan space archives for an undocumented celestial object, identifying a new planet candidate. To perform the analysis, the researcher used Claude Code with the Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 models to search through 7 years of telescope data that had previously gone unexamined for this discovery.
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