A California high school student has made an extraordinary contribution to astronomy by developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uncovered 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. Seventeen-year-old Matteo Paz's work, conducted through Caltech's Planet Finder Academy, has now been published in 'The Astronomical Journal' – a remarkable achievement for a single-author paper by a teenage scientist.

A recent study by space scientists from India and the US reveals evidence for a greater possibility of finding much more water-ice in the craters of the moon’s two polar regions than estimated in the past.