Vibecoder Finds Exoplanet Using AI

A developer known as Vibecoder detected a signal in NASA telescope archive data resembling an exoplanet transit. He used the capabilities of Claude and ChatGPT neural networks for analysis.

Over two weeks, the author wrote more than a thousand scripts using Claude Code and Codex. He performed 74 data checks to separate noise from real astronomical phenomena.

Calculations indicate the existence of a planet with a radius about 1.4 times that of Earth. A year on this celestial body lasts slightly more than three days.

NASA's plans to confirm the discovery

• The discovery currently lacks official confirmation from the scientific community.
• The TESS mission plans to search for confirmation in November this year.
• The author pre-calculated the date of the next eclipse for observations.