An artist's illustration showing dwarf planet Haumea with its newly discovered ring. IAA-CSIC/UHU The family of ringed bodies in the solar system has a new member: Haumea. The dwarf planet with an ...

A dark red area discovered on the dwarf planet Haumea appears to be richer in minerals and organic compounds than the surrounding icy surface. A dark red area discovered on the dwarf planet Haumea ...

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 after ...

Haumea can do the hula-hoop. The egg-shaped dwarf planet is the first object beyond Neptune to be spotted sporting a ring of particles. “It now appears that rings can be common in the outer solar ...

Astronomers have found a ring of particles surrounding a small, distant space rock at the edge of our Solar System. The ring encircles a strange world called Haumea, a dwarf planet that’s shaped a bit ...

Haumea, a dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system, doesn’t have the same kind of moons as its well-known cousin Pluto, according to a new study. This is despite original evidence that suggested ...

A ‘dwarf planet’ in the deepest reaches of our solar system is covered in crystalline ice, it has been revealed. Haumea was discovered in 2004 but new findings from European scientists have now ...

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 ...

A dark red area discovered on dwarf planet Haumea appears to be richer in minerals and organic compounds than the surrounding icy surface. The discovery will be presented at the European Planetary ...

As kids, we all knew Saturn was the one planet in our solar system with rings. Then, rings were also discovered around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. And now a new study reports that a ring has been ...