Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planet Vulcan was the famous homeworld of the humanoid species to which Star Trek hero Mr. Spock belonged. Logical, steadfast ...

Star Trek fans may be disappointed to learn that Spock’s home planet of Vulcan has turned out to be an illusion. While the planet Vulcan may not exist in real life, Spock’s star system, 40 Eridani, is ...

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 ...