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Study Suggests Venus May Have Pulled a Former Moon Into Itself

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 3 HEADLINES

2026-09-24
New Theory Suggests Venus May Have Destroyed a Former Moon
25 Sep, 00:27 UTC
Study Proposes Venus Pulled a Former Moon Inward and Destroyed It
25 Sep, 06:10 UTC
Study Suggests Venus May Have Pulled a Former Moon Into Itself

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

Nothing new took hold after the first third.