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 ...

While Eros is the god of love, Eris is the goddess of strife, discord, and conflict. But, you have to admit, Eris sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

COVID cases have once again crept up in the UK, with a new variant dubbed Eris - after the Greek goddess of discord and strife - gaining dominance. With hospital admission numbers also being ...

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 ...

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 ...

The name "Eris" comes from the goddess of chaos, known for disrupting a party by throwing a golden apple into it. Co-owners, Katy Pizza and Michelle Foik, decided the name was fit for a company ...