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.

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.

The radius, mass, and period of TOI-849b place it firmly in a zone that's called the "hot-Neptune desert"—an orbital region where the physics are such that large planets appear to very rarely form.

Here summer can be as hot as 70°C on the sand (also suggested in the book). Winters are just as extreme, as low as -40°C in the mid-latitudes and down to -75°C in the poles.

Trillions of galaxies and more space headlines 08:19. On one particularly hot planet, hundreds of light-years away from Earth, the forecast is cloudy with a chance of liquid iron rain.

A new study finds that desert worlds — like the planet Arrakis in the sci-fi classic "Dune" — might be the most common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such ...

Active Venus volcanoes make super hot planet even more unwelcoming ... Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert.