Mr Spock's fabled home star could harbour an Earth-like planet, boffins claim. Epsilon Eridani was borrowed by the creators of Star Trek as the location of Vulcan, Mr Spock's home.
But now NASA astronomers say Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system.
The star is about 62 trillion miles away from Earth but it is the closest known solar system.
The boffins report that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt and a Jupiter-like giant planet in roughly the same orbits as in our own solar system.
It is a fifth the age of Earth's sun, at 850 million years old.
"We certainly haven't seen it yet, but if its solar system is anything like ours, then there should be planets like ours," say astronomer Massimo Marengo of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US.
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