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

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a "rogue planet" drifting through ...

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 ...

In addition, many stars in the crowded field had far more variable brightness than the subtle signals associated with microlensing. Despite these challenging factors, the latest advances in ...

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

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, ...

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