{"id":461485,"date":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461485\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","slug":"the-united-states-owns-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461485\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States owns the moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KGTV) \u2014 In late January, Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed on-air that the U.S. owns the moon.<\/p>\n<p>A Fox spokesperson later said the remark was made in jest and we can confirm it is fiction.<\/p>\n<p>But that leads to the question of who, If anyone, does own the moon?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/who-owns-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snopes<\/a> looked into it.<\/p>\n<p>According to a United Nations treaty signed by the U.S. and dozens of other countries, no nation can claim sovereignty over celestial bodies, including the moon,<\/p>\n<p>That being said, there is a battle among nations to set up bases on the moon and extract resources from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KGTV) \u2014 In late January, Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed on-air that the U.S. owns the moon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-461485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}