Using computer simulations, scientists based at NASA have pieced together the story of how the dwarf planet Haumea, found in the Kuiper Belt of icy worlds beyond the orbit of outermost planet Neptune, ...

The fifth dwarf planet of the Solar System, Haumea, and at least one of its two satellites, are covered in crystalline water-ice due to the tidal forces between them and the heat of radiogenic ...

Scientists from NASA have uncovered the mysterious history of one of the solar system's weirdest objects: the fast-spinning dwarf Haumea. Haumea is located in the Kuiper Belt of frozen planets beyond ...

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 ...

PARIS — Move over Saturn! Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk the theory that only giant planets can be so adorned. The planet, dubbed Haumea, ...

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 with icy ...

The dwarf planet Haumea, which orbits 1.9 billion kilometres beyond Neptune, has a ring — the first object beyond the orbit of Neptune known to have such a feature. A team led by Jose Ortiz from the ...

Discovered in 2004, Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Pluto's orbit in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was demoted from the category of fully fledged planets in 2006 ...

Our solar system could be about to acquire a new planet - a dwarf planet, to be precise - after astronomers examined a hulking space rock in an asteroid belt. Hygeia is pretty big for an asteroid. At ...

A giant rock thought to be the fourth largest asteroid in the solar system could be a dwarf planet, astronomers have said. If reclassified, it would make Hygiea, located in the asteroid belt between ...