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 ...

The trouble-making object that forced astronomers to reconsider Pluto’s planetary status has finally received its official name — Eris. The name, taken from a Greek goddess of discord and ...

The IAU has now approved Brown’s suggested name, Eris, for the dwarf planet formerly known as 2003 UB313. In Greek mythology, Eris caused a fight over a golden apple, which led to the Trojan War.

"Eris is the Greek goddess of discord and strife," astronomer Mike Brown, a member of the Eris discovery team, said in a statement from the California Institute of Technology.

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 committe… ...

The distant world whose discovery prompted leading astronomers to demote Pluto from the rank of "planet" has now been given its own official name. Having caused so much consternation in the ...

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 ...