Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet . Before you get too excited, planets in our solar system also emit RF, so no one credible is claiming these are extraterrestrial reruns of their version of I Love Lucy , but it is the first time they’ve localized a radio signal to an exoplanet, in this case, Beta Pictoris B. Speaking of space, the asteroid formerly known as 1981 EC26 is now sporting a new