'Doomsday Planet' Nibiru Has Cameo In 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

 by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer                             

The new “Star Trek” film warped into on Thursday (May 16) and space enthusiasts may find something familiar in the opening scenes of the fictional universe: a made-up planet named Nibiru.

In “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the latest installment in the popular science fiction series, Nibiru is the lush, volcanic jungle planet and was featured in the film’s trailer (so no spoilers there really), but before its turn in Hollywood, the extraterrestrial name was attached to one of the most popular end-of-world conspiracies last year. 

When rumors that the world would end in 2012 became widely circulated last year, one popular contender among doomsday theorists was a supposed planet called Nibiru, which some claimed was set to catastrophically collide with Earth. 

There was (and still is) no scientific evidence to support the existence of Nibiru, and NASA even released a statement last year refuting the claims, after the agency was accused of a conspiracy to cover up the Nibiru threat to avoid mass panic. [See Photos from "Star Trek Into Darkness"]

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