The planet makes an appearance in several Star Trek films and series episodes and (spoiler alert) is destroyed in J.J. Desert and mountainous expanses are interspersed with seas. Spock, Vulcan is said to be a hotter, more massive planet than Earth, with stronger gravity and a thinner atmosphere. Home to the “pointy eared, green blooded” Vulcans and to Star Trek’s iconic Mr. The most massive is 40 Eridani A, chosen as Vulcan’s home world. This trinary system of three dwarf stars, about 16 light-years from Earth, could play host to exoplanets none have been detected there so far.

What is perhaps the most famous Star Trek planet was placed by creator Gene Roddenberry in a real star system: 40 Eridani.