Microlensing is a powerful astronomical technique used to detect exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. This method relies on the gravitational lensing effect, where the ...

South Africa has made significant strides in astronomy research and infrastructure, the most recent being the launch of the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME) telescope in Sutherland ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...

Gravitational microlensing occurs when one star passes ... mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting ...

To detect exoplanets that orbit further out, an upcoming NASA mission, the Roman Space Telescope, will use gravitational microlensing, in which a nearby star will bend and focus light from a ...

This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing with a rogue planet — a planet that does not orbit a star. When the rogue planet appears to pass nearly in front of a ...

Identifying and studying exoplanets is conducted through a variety of detection methods, including transit, radial velocity, gravitational microlensing, timing, and direct imaging. For the transit ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its ... which found over 2,700 confirmed planets before ceasing operations in 2018. The system was found using ...