With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's most long-awaited surveys begins. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) ...

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 ...

Microlensing surveys are complementary, best probing the outer parts of planetary systems with less sensitivity to planets closer to their stars.

Microlensing leverages a consequence of Einstein’s general theory of relativity: the bending and magnification of light near a massive object like a star, producing a natural lens on the sky.

Research collaboration: Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions.

Microlensing will get a big boost with the flight of the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) space telescope, which is scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, ...

Microlensing surveys are complementary, best probing the outer parts of planetary systems with less sensitivity to planets closer to their stars.

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

Scientists claim that Kepler could still hunt for exoplanets using gravity microlensing. Last month, NASA declared its Kepler mission to hunt exoplanets at an end when one of the space telescope ...