Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

The ever-growing exoplanet census now includes more than 1,000 members in more than 800 planetary systems found by radial ...

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 ...

PRIME uses wide field imaging and gravitational microlensing techniques that measure brightness variations of faint objects in the infrared spectrum (not visible to humans). To detect exoplanets ...

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Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

PhD student, David Specht from The University of Manchester is the lead author on the new research. To find an exoplanet using the microlensing effect the team searched through Kepler data collected ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.