{"id":777210,"date":"2026-09-20T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777210\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:30:21","slug":"did-venus-swallow-its-own-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777210\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Venus &#8216;swallow&#8217; its own moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research was carried out by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They decided to take a closer look at why Venus &#8211; the planet most like Earth in size &#8211; doesn&#8217;t have a moon of its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They wanted to see whether the planet&#8217;s very slow spin could be the reason why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Using computer models, they explored what would happen to moons of different sizes as they orbited the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team found that, sooner or later, regardless of their size, the moons would likely move closer to Venus before eventually colliding with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lead author of the study, Stephen Krane, explained: &#8220;If [Venus] had a moon, and it likely did at some point, it could not have kept it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That moon would have crashed down on the planet in a relatively short time scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The research was carried out by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, in the US. They decided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}