Beyond our solar system, ... The planet was discovered in 2018 around the real star 40 Eridani A — the very same star that hosts Spock's home planet in the famous sci-fi series.

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

New research shows that a planet spotted around the real-life star 40 Eridani A, famous for hosting Dr. Spock's fictional home world in 'Star Trek', may have been an optical illusion all along.

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Star Trek fans knew they would lose the planet Vulcan someday in a fiery implosion at the hands of the Romulans—but they probably didn’t expect it to lose the planet in real life, too. Now ...

Are aliens real? We don’t know for sure, but we want to believe. Outer space is a vast expanse that we have so much more to learn about, which is why it’s hard to flat-out deny the possibility ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

All of the planets of the solar system are visible together in the night sky right now, providing stargazers with a "spectacular" show to end the year. Over the next few days, it is possible to see ...