The planet is the setting for most of the novel and movies based on the book. The second installment of the latest imagining from director Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two , opens in theaters March 1.

NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

Our galaxy apparently has a dearth of Neptune-size worlds that orbit close to their host stars — something astronomers term the "hot Neptune desert."This is a bit of an enigma.

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

The desert is located mainly in northern Africa, spread across 10 different countries (11 if you include Western Sahara, a disputed territory) and is therefore home to as many as 2.5 million people.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.