{"id":3927800,"date":"2026-09-03T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-doesnt-venus-have-a-moon-a-new-study-may-have-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:00:24","slug":"why-doesnt-venus-have-a-moon-a-new-study-may-have-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-doesnt-venus-have-a-moon-a-new-study-may-have-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#8217;t Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Venus is one of the solar system&#8217;s most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called &#8220;Earth&#8217;s twin&#8221; because of its similar size and density, but it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction of most planets, has surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and lacks a moon.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-doesnt-venus-moon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus is one of the solar system&#8217;s most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called &#8220;Earth&#8217;s twin&#8221; because of its similar size and density, but it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction of most planets, has surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and lacks a moon. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}