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Eris is confirmed to be the largest known solar system object beyond Neptune, forcing Pluto to retain its Dwarf Planet status.

Makemake is a Pluto-like object lying in our solar system beyond Neptune's orbit.

These trickster deities add some humor and mischief to many myths. Some have good results other very grave.

There are now only eight official planets in the solar system. Where did Pluto go? And what about those new planets they keep announcing?

Discordianism may have been started as a parody religion, but the religion's holiest texts makes two very important points.

Tremendous hype surrounds purported apocalyptic scenarios, but the fears about 2012 are based on fictions.

PlanetWaves, the innovative site for astrology, news, politics, sex and spirituality, publishes Next World Stories, a detailed and insightful forecast for the year 2009.

Number five is linked to everything in the Universe, according to the numerology of the Discordian religion. Being a tenet of a chaos religion does make one wonder.

Are Discodianism and Thelema representative of emerging consensus belief in the 21st Century?

There is no longer a ninth planet from the sun. Little Pluto is ejected from the planetary family.

The Trojan War, according to Greek Myth, pitted the Greeks against the Trojans. The war was at first fought over Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman on Earth.

Check your facts with this astronomy quizzer.

Dormitories at SUNY New Paltz were contaminated with PCBs and dioxins in a 1991 explosion. How can levels be "safe," as officials claim, for students moving in?

Venus was one of the most popular Roman goddesses and the myths about her are similar to those of the ancient Greek goddess, Aphrodite.

An unusual female ensemble based in Houston, Texas takes string trio music to bars and clubs.

Pfeiffer is no stranger to the fantasy genre; since her turn as the cursed Isabeau of 1985's Ladyhawke, almost a third of her films have featured supernatural elements.

The Walters Art Museum assembles ancient Greek winged beings both charming and menacing.

Nowadays, celestial discoveries often result in changing not only scientific data but even vocabulary which denotes astronomical objects.

Unusual baby names for boys and girls can be inspired by everything from famous cities to professional athletes to literary character names to common surnames.