How many moons do the planets in our solar system have?

The 8 planets in our solar system have 166 moons. Neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons. Our home, the Earth, has 1 moon. Mars has 2 moons. Mighty Jupiter has 63 known moons. Saturn has 60 moons. Uranus has 27 and Neptune has all of 13 moons. So the total number of known moons orbiting the 8 planets is 166. However, some people believe that astronomers will discover more moons hidden around the planets.

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Karen S. Wolf

teresab, Be grateful - possibly multiple moons would cause weird tides and make the planet uninhabitable.

Karen S. Wolf

I thought there were over 200! Poor / old data source?

Naked Kitty Slave

So wrong on so many levels. This is from NASA: Planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the Sun. Moons — also known as natural satellites — orbit planets and asteroids. There are more than 200 moons in our solar system.

teacherchicky

Another wrong answer as there are over 215 moons in our solar system.

vinceguerrero

answered the question correctly but out of curiosity I looked it up there actually 213 and our solar system I wish you mother

Ronald Schertz

There are more than that...not sure when this question was produced..

docluci

The total moons in the solar system are an astronomical total! My answer was wrong again

John W Shreve

teresab, Because there is only one true moon goddess, Selene.

teresab

How come Earth got only one?

Simon Rasch

According to theplanets.org there are 181 known moons in our solar system

Alan Waites

Moons in our Solar System. As of October 2008, there are 193 known natural moons orbiting planets in our Solar System. 185 moons orbit the "full-size" planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), while 8 moons orbit the smaller " dwarf planets " ( Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris ). Moons in our Solar System - Windows to the Universe windows2universe.org/our_solar_system/moons_table.html