Clearly you can’t visit the sand planet of Arrakis and maybe you wouldn’t want to. It’s hot, it’s dry, and you can’t walk in a straight line without a sandworm coming and eating you up. What you can ...

Sandworms on Arrakis provide the oxygen needed for human survival in an otherwise harsh desert environment. Sandworms originated from sandtrouts and unintentionally turned Arrakis into a desert, ...

The environment on Arrakis — the desert planet central to Frank Herbert's epic science fiction series Dune — is not entirely fictional, according to Cornell scientists. Arrakis consists of bone-dry ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

"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 ...

Few images are more iconic in the science fiction genre than the vast deserts of the planet Arrakis, rich with spice and teeming with massive sandworms. The franchise even gets its title, Dune, from ...