to boldly go where no one has gone before

No one is saying that any pointy-eared aliens live there, but astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting 40 Eridani A, a star known to "Star Trek" fans as the host star of Spock's home planet, Vulcan. The newfound exoplanet is 16 light-years from Earth in the Constellation Eridanus. It...