Astronomers may have spotted Mr. Spock's home planet

There really may be a planet Vulcan.NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected two asteroid belts around Epsilon Eridani, the planetary system closest to ours and home to Star Trek's fictitious First Officer Spock, the space agency reported yesterday.A planet near the inner asteroid belt was identified eight years ago. The newly spotted planet is in the vicinity of the outer belt.Epsilon Eridani is around 10 light-years, or 62 trillion miles (98 trillion kilometers), away from Earth's solar system and, at a mere 850 million years old, is considered a younger, similar version of our own 4.5- billion-year-old system. Star Trek creators made it the home of Vulcan, and it's possible that there are as-yet-unseen Earth-like planets between the star system.

Full article on Scientific American