Haumea, the most peculiar of Pluto companions, has a ring around it Date: October 12, 2017 Source: Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) Summary: The trans-neptunian belt contains ...

Haumea: The oddball Haumea, a Kuiper Belt denizen orbiting slightly beyond Pluto, was discovered by Brown and his team in late 2004. It's one of the weirdest objects in the solar system.

A ring has been found around Haumea, a world more than 2 billion kilometres beyond Pluto. The ring is the most distant ever seen in our solar system. “This is a landmark discovery,” says Alan ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was discovered.

Researchers have long thought that Pluto began as an icy sphere when it formed in the Kuiper Belt, a home to cold, dark objects on the edge of our solar system.

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.

The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the orbit of Neptune. Three of the others (Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) ...

The dwarf planet Haumea has befuddled modern scientists for years. New BYU research details the planet's creation and solves one of astronomy's puzzles.

Yet a recent astronomical observation seems to suggest that the distant dwarf planet Haumea, which possesses only about one-third the mass of Pluto, may have a ring as well.

Out beyond Neptune, past Pluto, through the chaos of the Kuiper belt to a point some 8.5 billion miles from the sun, a new dwarf planet has just joined our solar system.

They are now Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Eris and Makemake. The discovery of Haumea was announced in mid-2005, and the object was initially given the provisional designation of 2003 EL61.

Today, the dwarf planet Pluto orbits the sun from the edge of our solar system and its surface temperature is an inhospitable negative 378 to negative 396 degrees Fahrenheit. But a new study ...