In the 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek reboot, Vulcan was destroyed by a time-traveling enemy of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew. By wiping out the real-life Vulcan ...

Along with Nichelle Nichols' efforts to diversify the STEM fields, Star Trek inspires real technology, too. Because of its aspirational nature, things that seem like science fiction can become ...

The discovery of an exoplanet around 40 Eridani A spurred claims a real-life counterpart of the planet Vulcan from Star Trek existed. Image source: dottedyeti / Adobe Based on that analysis ...

When Star Trek technical adviser Michael Okuda was ... And magnetic resonance imaging, cell phones and the Internet appeared in real life long before the 23rd century, when early episodes ...

The mysterious V’Ger was introduced to the audience in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) when the USS Enterprise crew, led by Captain James T.

For Star Trek Day, learn about the relationship between sci-fi and real-life science in this excerpt from “Reality Ahead of Schedule” Joel Levy A machine set into the wall, resembling a large ...

New research shows that a planet spotted around the real-life star 40 Eridani A, famous for hosting Dr. Spock's fictional home world in 'Star Trek', may have been an optical illusion all along.