"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this ...

A rogue planet was found in Hubble data using Einstein’s microlensing; event lasted 8 hrs and no host star was detected.

Microlensing is “highly complementary” to other exoplanet-hunting techniques, says Jennifer Yee, a co-author of the new study and researcher at The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions below. Konan University Massey University ...

Microlensing applies the same principle to observing stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. The system is located 8,000 light-years away toward the center of the Milky Way.

The Japan-New Zealand-American Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) and the Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork (PLANET) programs led the study on the exomoon.

They claim that Kepler could still hunt for exoplanets using gravity microlensing to detect how stars with planets distort space. Before its malfunction, Kepler found over 3,000 possible ...