By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris - Paris Sciences et Lettres University and Jean-Mathias Griessmeier of the Université d’Orléans has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes –that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. Turner, who laid the groundwork for this research while earning his doctorate at the University of Virginia, received funding from the National Scien...