In a distant star system, 20,000 years into the future, ... Planet Arrakis lacks oceans, lakes, or even tiny puddles on its surface. Needless to say, that's bad news for humans.

The planet Arrakis is the central setting in the first novel of Frank Herbert's Dune series. Here's what you need to know about the location.

Herbert created complex societies, religions and economic systems all with rich histories. Most famous of Herbert’s worlds is the desert planet Arrakis, nicknamed Dune, with its harsh climate ...

Dune: Awakening drops you in the middle of Arrakis, the most iconic planet from the Dune book series, and also the most unforgiving. The desert landscape is tough to navigate, and full of ...

So let’s take Arrakis, please, and its famous giant, deadly worms. Could there be a planet like this and have those big worms on it? MICHAEL WONG: Yeah, that’s a really good question. So I think the ...

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 ...

In "The Science of Dune," a book laying out the science for how life could survive and evolve on a planet like Arrakis, planetary physicist Kevin Grazier speculates that the sandtrout do not ...

Now they’re hoping to repeat the same acclaim using some of the same mechanics in Dune: War for Arrakis, as the houses Harkonnen and Atreides fight for control of the desert planet. As a CMON ...