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

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 ...

Hiʻiaka is the larger, outer moon of the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Haumea. It is named after one of the daughters of Haumea, Hiʻiaka, the patron goddess of the Big Island of Hawaii. It orbits once ...

Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike ...

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

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

How many planets are there in our solar system? Nine? Eight? Twelve? Hundreds? I know many will insist there are nine, with Pluto as the ninth planet, but ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...