The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Astronomers spotted exoplanet AT2021ueyL b, a gas giant 3,262 light-years away, using microlensing. It orbits in the galactic ...

Researchers from Vilnius University’s Faculty of Physics, along with other scientists, have recently discovered a new ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, along with members from Poland and other countries, discovered a ...

Gravitational microlensing is a "rare phenomenon," the researchers said. There have only been three such cases of a planet being documented by microlensing in the history of observations, ...

Hunting for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to account for 85 percent of all matter in the cosmos, isn't easy. If it interacts with light at all, it does so incredibly weakly. Still, we ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain one of the greatest puzzles in science.

Gravitational microlensing is a transient but powerful phenomenon that occurs when a foreground mass – such as a star or a planetary system – temporarily magnifies the light from a more ...