Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-spocks-home-planet-goes-poof/ The possible detection of an exoplanet orbiting a star that Star Trek made famous drew excitement and plenty of attention when it was announced in 2018. Only five years later, the planet appeared to be on shaky ground when other researchers questioned whether it was there at all. Now, precision measurements using a NASA-National Science Foundation instrument seem to have returned the planet Vulcan even more definitively to the realm of science fiction.