Deep in NASA's collection of starlight data, astronomers have discovered something surprising: a planet hiding in a place where planets should not exist. This region, called the Neptunian desert, is an area near certain stars where large Neptune-sized planets are extremely rare. For years, the signal from this planet and many others went unnoticed in data collected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS. It took an artificial intelligence system named RAVEN, created by scientists at the University of Warwick in England, to finally discover them. RAVEN has now confirmed 118 new exoplanets, including 31 that no one had seen before. The system also identified over 2,000 other promising candidates waiting for final confirmation, nearly 1,000 of which are completely new. RAVEN works by detecting planetary signals, sorting real planets from false signals, and confirming them statistically. Scientists trained it using hundreds of thousands of simulated signals. The challenge is that not every drop in starlight means a planet exists. Sometimes other objects, like binary stars, create similar patterns. In a separate study, researchers from UNSW Sydney in Australia used TESS data to find 27 candidate planets orbiting binary star systems by measuring tiny timing changes. Since TESS launched in 2018, it has confirmed 885 worlds and continues to make unexpected discoveries far beyond its original purpose.