How many moons does all the planets have?

Our home Earth has one moon. But not all have only one moon. Some of them have dozens of moons while some have none. Let's know the number of moons all the planets have starting from the one closest to the sun. Here we go-

MERCURY

First planet from the sun is mercury, which is also the smallest planet in the solar system, don't have any moon because of it's closeness to the Sun. If it had any moon, it would have been most likely to crash into mercury or get into the orbit of the sun, and would eventually get sucked into it.

VENUS

Next up is venus, the third smallest planet after mercury and mars, also don't have any moon. Unlike mercury, the reason why venus don't have any moon is still not known by us.

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EARTH

Our home earth, the third planet from the sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system has one moon.

MARS

Up next is mars, where scientists have been researching for the existence of life, which is also the second smallest planet after mercury, has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Doesn't seems like twin names?

JUPITER

The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter has 79 moons. Jupiter is home to the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymade. It's moons are so big that you can see them with a pair of binoculars.

SATURN

The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverged ranging from tiny moonlets less than 1km across to the enormous Titan which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 62 moons with confirmed orbits, 53 of which have names and only 13 of which have diameters larger than 50km.

URANUS

Uranus is the third largest planet in the solar system after the giants, Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 27 moons that NASA has so far found.

Neptune

Neptune is the fourth largest planet in the solar system. Neptune has 13 named moon and one is awaiting confirmation. One of its moon, Triton, is as big as the dwarf planet, pluto.

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