Haumea is a dwarf planet that orbits the sun far beyond Neptune. It is about the same size as Pluto and has two moons. One of its notable characteristics is how fast it spins on its axis. Just ...

Yet one of its most interesting oddities is the dwarf planet, Haumea. Though it was discovered less than two decades ago, information about the dwarf planet is sparse as Earth-based telescopes ...

The ring encircles a strange world called Haumea, a dwarf planet that’s shaped a bit like a squashed egg. Haumea is one of just five officially recognized dwarf planets in the Solar System ...

In a paper being released today, researchers are reporting on one such surprise, courtesy of the dwarf planet Haumea: it's got a ring. The observations that spotted the ring also suggest that ...

Research from BYU doctoral student Benjamin Proudfoot and BYU astronomy professor Darin Ragozzine details the creation of the dwarf planet Haumea, solving one of astronomy's puzzles. There’s an object ...

Haumea spins so fast that its shape is more football-like than round. If you've never heard of the dwarf planet Haumea, tonight's a pretty good night to become familiar with the football-shaped ...

Most objects with a radius over 200 miles are spherical, but Haumea is an exception. Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is ...

Astronomers have now used that method to get a better look at a little-known dwarf planet much closer to home: Haumea, which orbits the Sun beyond Neptune. The observations not only gave ...

This week, researchers revealed that the egg-shaped dwarf planet Haumea — one of four known diminutive planets that circle the sun from beyond the orbit of Neptune — is surrounded by a ring of ...