Star Trek fans might be disappointed by a new study that refutes the existence of an exoplanet where Spock's Planet Vulcan was said to be in the sci-fi show. Credit: NASA via Getty images Scientists ...

Fans of Star Trek were over the Moon when, in 2018, astronomers with the Dharma Planet Survey (DPS) announced the possible detection of 40 Eridani b, an extrasolar planet in the star system 40 Eridani ...

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We’re sorry to disappoint Star Trek fans, but the exoplanet often compared to Mr. Spock’s fictional world has turned out to be nothing more than star flickers ...

Among the TV series Star Trek’s many charms are its rich universe of characters and planets. Now, the Dharma Planet Survey, in a new study led by University of Florida (UF) astronomer Jian Ge and team ...

Once upon a time, there was a real-life planet right where Star Trek put its fictional world of Vulcan — or so we thought. By breaking the light from 40 Eridani into the individual wavelengths that ...

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Even scientists can get overexcited during solar eclipses. That's what happened to Lewis Swift, the famous Rochester astronomer of the late 19th century. He identified a dozen comets and more than ...

In 1966 a television show called Star Trek made its debut, introducing fans of the show to a character named Spock, who hailed from a planet named Vulcan, which orbited a star called 40 Eridani A. The ...

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