Researchers have used microlensing and images from the Gaia spacecraft to identify a free-floating, Saturn-sized planet in the region known as the "Einstein desert." The microlensing event, recorded by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network as KMT-2024-BLG-0792 and by OGLE as OGLE-2024-BLG-0516, occurred in early May 2024. Ground-based telescopes

Researchers used ground-based microlensing surveys and fortuitous observations by the Gaia space telescope to identify a Saturn-sized free-floating planet located in the so-called "Einstein desert." It is the first microlensing detection placed in that gap. Microlensing finds planets when an object passes between Earth and a background star,