User says Claude Code surfaced an exoplanet candidate in NASA TESS data

Pavel Rabtsevich says he used Claude Code to analyze NASA's TESS data and found an exoplanet candidate, reported on the Hacker News front page on October 8, 2026. The reported signal repeats every 3.18 days. The result is still described as a candidate and has not been confirmed; the coverage gives no further confirmation progress and no plan for follow-up verification.

Written by AI from the coverage · updated 1 hour ago

Not enough continuous observations to draw a trend yet.