Radio signals from outside of our solar system were detected for the first time by astronomers

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What we can confirm

The claim is too broad and is false as stated. Radio signals from outside the Solar System were detected in the early history of radio astronomy: Karl Jansky identified radio emissions from the Milky Way in the 1930s. The September 2026 finding concerning Beta Pictoris b is a narrower first: the first direct radio detection unambiguously localized to a single exoplanet, rather than the first detection of any radio signals originating beyond the Solar System.