According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Eris was born after Ouranos’s castration to the primordial goddess of night, Nyx. She was one of several siblings, the vast majority of whom were plagues to ...

That decision remains controversial to this day, making Eris' name fitting. "Eris is the Greek goddess of discord and strife," astronomer Mike Brown, a member of the Eris discovery team ...

Named after the ancient Greek goddess of discord, Eris orbits at an average of about 68 times further from the sun than Earth, taking 557 years to complete one orbit. Pluto orbits at an average of ...

It was thanks to this contention in the scientific community that the IAU in 2006 named the dwarf planet Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Named for the capricious Greek goddess of discord, trouble-stirring Eris would doubtless be pleased that her celestial namesake caused even mild-mannered astronomers to quarrel, as its discovery ...

In the outer Solar System, the dwarf planet Eris is locked in a mutual dance with its moon Dysnomia 1. Eris, the most massive object known in the Solar System beyond Neptune, is so distant that it ...