With the announcement of a new moon around planet Uranus, it came to our attention that some people are shocked to find out that we do not know exactly how many moons are around the planets that exist in the Solar System. Finding moons nowadays is a lot more challenging than you might think. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Mercury has no moon, and neither does Venus (although it has a quasi-moon named Zoozve ). Earth has the Moon, capital M. Mars has Phobos and Deimos. Then things get a bit complicated. As of the latest count, Jupiter has 97 moons . Saturn now has 274, after a whopping 128 moons were discovered in a single swoop. Uranus has 29 moons, the latest one only just announced , and Neptune closes the pl

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