Planets, moons and other celestial bodies are named according to rules established by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Pluto did not have any rules for naming surface features because, ...
No more pussyfooting around. It's official: Pluto has 14 new place names. Most we suspected would be there, but a few are new. Pluto's "heart" now bears the name of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, ...
Chemists of the Manhattan Project were having mythology trouble. They had created two new elements, Nos. 95 and 96 (TIME, Nov. 26). But when they tried to name them, they were stumped. Uranium (No. 92 ...
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