The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

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 ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Related: Exoplanets: Everything you need to know about the worlds beyond our solar system Yet, by being so massive, Gaia-4b exerts a fierce gravitational pull on its star, an unremarkable orange K ...