Buckle up, my babies — on Monday, July 7, Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital ...

In Greek myth, Uranus, born from primeval chaos, is the god of the sky. One half of the first couple, Uranus, was the mate of Gaia, aka Mother Earth.

A year later, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name, Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god Ouranos. He made quite a persuasive argument with two main points.

Uranus was one of the earliest gods in Greek mythology. He was the god of the sky and the son/husband of Gaia, the mother of the Earth. Their offspring included the Titans, ...

Uranus (as it was called commonly after 1850 or so) was named after the Greek sky deity Ouranos, the earliest of the lords of the heavens. It is the only planet to be named after a Greek god ...

Uranus' new moon, S/2023 U1, is only around 5 miles ... the newly recognized bodies will be named after the Nereids — the daughters of the sea god Nereus from Greek mythology.

Some also suggested naming it after Odin, the Norse God who fought ice giants, or Caelus, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Uranus. Whether we'll actually ever see a mission to Uranus any time ...

A year after Hershel's discovery, writes Popular Science, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).