They detect planets by the dimming of host stars as they pass in front of them or by the wobble that the planets' gravitational tugs impart upon them. Microlensing is a rarer method that comes from ...

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 ...

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

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

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

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world’s most ambitious space project, the ...

An international team of scientists used expertise, patience, microlensing, and a little bit of luck to make an exceptionally ...

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 ...

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

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