{"id":3928042,"date":"2026-09-20T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venus-ate-its-moon-how-earths-twin-could-have-swallowed-a-rocky-satellite\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:02:30","slug":"venus-ate-its-moon-how-earths-twin-could-have-swallowed-a-rocky-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venus-ate-its-moon-how-earths-twin-could-have-swallowed-a-rocky-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus ate its moon: How Earth&#8217;s &#8216;twin&#8217; could have swallowed a rocky satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a size, mass and structure similar to Earth&#8217;s, doesn&#8217;t have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows that our hungry twin likely swallowed it.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-venus-ate-moon-earth-twin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a size, mass and structure similar to Earth&#8217;s, doesn&#8217;t have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows that our hungry twin likely swallowed it. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3928042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928042","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=3928042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}