Luke Skywalker famously said if there was a bright center of the universe, Tatooine was the planet it was farthest from. That didn't stop it from becoming the most famous planet in a galaxy far, far ...

Star Wars sometimes gets teased by fans for spending way too much time on desert planets while there’s a wealth of colorful, vivid possibilities in a galaxy of limitless imagination. But how much time ...

Giant worms aside, how likely is it that human beings could live on a desert planet like the ones seen in Dune? That’s what researchers set out to learn. Alex Farnsworth, Michael Farnsworth, and ...

The sci-fi film Dune: Part Two is out in theaters now. The movie takes place on the harsh desert planet, Arrakis, where water is scarce and giant,... Could Dune really exist? What scientists think of ...

Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune. (Chiabella James / Warner Bros. Pictures) Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, begins with an ambush.

Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of Arrakis, which various characters dream of ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

"Arrakis is Dune, and Dune is sand," said Dune: Awakening executive producer Scott Junior, describing the desert planet that serves as the setting for the upcoming multiplayer survival game. This ...

Mars, a planet once capable of sustaining liquid water and harboring flowing rivers, today stands as a frozen desert. For years, scientists have struggled to understand why a planet with so many Earth ...

NEW YORK — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual ...