Orbiting the sun from far beyond planet Neptune, the recently discovered planetoid Haumea is a fast-spinning elongated object, completing one rotation every four hours. Now, following fresh ...

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. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by ...

The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

and we'll let you decide whether to stick to the eight official planets or fold in the dwarf planets as well (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris—five and counting).

It stands as one of the five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system, alongside Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. These celestial bodies share common features like being spherical ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...