According to Greek mythology, the goddess Eris was so miffed at being left off the guest list of a banquet of the gods that she stirred up the Trojan War. Could there be a better name than that of the ...

LOS ANGELES — A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto’s demise as a planet has been given a name: Eris. The christening of Eris, named after the Greek goddess of ...

LOS ANGELES – A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been given a name: Eris. The christening of Eris, named after the Greek goddess of ...

MT. OLYMPUS (The Borowitz Report)—Partially confirming Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s theory of divine intervention in the 2016 election, Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, discord, and strife, revealed on ...

The dwarf planet formerly known as Xena received a new name Thursday, while Pluto was given a number to reflect the loss of its status as a planet. Michael E. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy ...

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Eris: goddess of discord. Could there be a better name for the recently discovered dwarf planet that threw our ideas about the solar system into a cocked hat? Apparently not. The executive committee ...

A large icy object that helped spark the debate over Pluto’s status has officially been named Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. The object had been known as 2003 UB313 since its discovery was ...

The International Astronomical Union has announced that the dwarf planet known as Xena since its 2005 discovery has been named Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. Eris's moon will be known as ...