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.

This isn’t the first time a planet has turned out to be an illusion; in 2014, two planets orbiting a star 20 light years away — Gliese 581d and Gliese 581g — turned out not to exist, either ...

It’ll spin your head right round, right round. This head-spinning optical illusion will have you second guessing your own sanity. It shows two rotating rings made up of six ovals.

ONE popular optical illusion has left people baffled and wondering what it means for their brains. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is an animated optical … ...

The illusion, dubbed the 'Scintillating Starburst', is made up of several concentric star polygons, that rotate, and was developed by researchers from New York University.

Just like the fictional planet of Vulcan was wiped out in Star Trek, new research has destroyed the real-life version of Spock's homeworld, albeit in a less violent fashion.