Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time

Filed by Elara Myst

Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system. Ever since the first ones were discovered in the 1990s, astronomers have turned their attention to these distant worlds to understand more about them. Now, for the first time, scientists have detected radio signals coming directly from one of these planets, a massive gas giant named β Pictoris b.Previous radio detections from exoplanetary systems couldn't be traced directly to the planet itself because astrono