AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Harvard researchers detect radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system for the first time
Scientists using a massive radio telescope array in South Africa have picked up radio signals traced directly to a single planet outside our solar system, a first in the history of astronomy that could reshape how researchers study distant worlds. The planet is Beta Pictoris b, a young gas giant roughly ten times the mass […] The post Harvard researchers detect radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system for the first time appeared first on American Almanac .
Scientists using a massive radio telescope array in South Africa have picked up radio signals traced directly to a single planet outside our solar system, a first in the history of astronomy that could reshape how researchers study distant worlds. The planet is Beta Pictoris b, a young gas giant roughly ten times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting a star 63.4 light years from Earth. Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics pointed the MeerKAT radio telescope array at the Beta Pictoris star system on four separate occasions in 2025 and 2026 and captured short, repeating bursts of radio waves. What made the detection historic: they could pin the signals to the planet itself, not to its host star or the surrounding system.…Open