Scientists have discovered repeating radio emissions coming from a star system in our galactic backyard.
It’s not a message from aliens, but it might show that some Earth-like planets outside the solar system have a magnetic field — one of the conditions necessary for life as we understand it.
Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, two researchers noticed repeating radio waves coming from a star called YZ Ceti in late 2019 and early 2020.
J. Sebastian Pineda of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Jackie Villadsen of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania suspect the “coherent” radio bursts occur due to interactions between YZ Ceti and a rocky planet
