By looking through data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), researchers uncovered a planet through microlensing for the first time — a concept theorized by Einstein that picks up on planets as their gravity warps space-time. Though the ESA’s now-retired Gaia telescope first discovered hints of the planet in 2023, TESS’s data revealed a planet that’s 1.6 times Jupiter’s mass and almost 40,000 light-years away from Earth. [Image: An artist’s depiction of the “super Jupiter,” Gaia23bra b. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/Brown-superjupiter-D2-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]