Take, for example, the dwarf planet Haumea, a large egg-shaped body that hangs out beyond Neptune in the far reaches of our little planetary neighborhood, which researchers just discovered also ...

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about ... that it starts to become more egg-shaped as it spins.

astronomers have discovered this dwarf planet also has a ring system in orbit around it. It's the first time a ring structure has been identified around an object beyond Neptune. Haumea, which was ...

I find the outer reaches of our solar system fascinating. It’s a place that we know very little about considering how relatively close it is – even its size is up for debate. It’s littered ...

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long.