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 ...

Haumea, named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, orbits the sun beyond the path of Neptune, with two moons in orbit around it named Hi'iaka and Namaka, two of the deity's daughters.

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.

The moons' orbits told us something about Haumea's mass. The images also show that Haumea has an odd, potato-like shape, technically a "triaxial ellipsoid." To understand that term, ...

Besides having two moons, Haumea also has a very faint ring system and is covered almost exclusively in crystalline water ice, making it an excellent candidate to investigate whether it might have ...

While Haumea has two moons of its own, they’re too small and too far from the dwarf planet to contribute to the ring, says Sickafoose. Additionally, ...

The International Astronomical Union has announced that the object previously known as 2003 EL61 is to be classified as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System and named Haumea. This now means ...

Both bodies are moons of the dwarf planet Haumea. The trio, discovered in late 2004 and 2005, reside in the Kuiper Belt, a reservoir of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune whose most famous ...

When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our expectations: Neptune. For every other planet, there are two main ways that they acquired ...

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 sug… ...