Space Scientists Just Found The First Direct Radio Signal From An Exoplanet

The planet, which lies outside of our solar system, is “massive”.

To get from Earth to Pluto in a car (if such a thing were possible), you’d need to drive for about 6,000 years at motorway speeds.

This is just the distance between two planets in a single solar system. One light-year is about six trillion miles; the galaxy to which we belong, the Milky Way, is 100,000 light-years across.

Experts think there could be one to two billion galaxies in the universe. So, perhaps it’s no wonder that scientists have long wondered whether we can really be alone in that unfathomable expanse.

Astronomers have been listening for radio signals and other signs of........

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