However, a novel astronomy detection technique known as microlensing is starting to fill in the gaps. Experts who are a part of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) recently used this ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new study.

Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Osaka University in Japan have used the phenomenon of gravitational microlensing to estimate the number of rogue planets that could be ...

Super-Earths might be far more common in the Universe than previously thought. A recent study using the KMTNet telescope network has revealed their presence in unexpected locations. This ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a gravitational lens that magnifies the star it's orbiting, causing it to ...

A star racing at high speed through our galaxy is dragging along a massive planet. This discovery surprises scientists, who expected the planet to be ejected during such a cosmic journey.

To predict future microlensing events, Su Jie and his colleagues examined 820,000 potential lens stars obtained from Gaia's third data release (DR3). They also conducted mass estimates to ...

Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, and first observed ...

Bending light: Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent ...