MOONS!
A lot of moons or no moons at all? We on Earth have just one moon, but some planets have dozens of them. Others don’t have any. Which planets have moons, and which don’t? Let’s go in order from the sun. Mercury and Venus Up first are Mercury and Venus. Neither of them has a moon. Because Mercury is so close to the sun and its gravity, it wouldn’t be able to hold on to its own moon. Any moon would most likely crash into Mercury or maybe go into orbit around the sun and eventually get pulled into it. Why Venus doesn’t have a moon is a mystery for scientists to solve. Earth (That's us!) Up next is Earth, and of course we have one moon. Mars Mars has two moons. Their names are Phobos and Deimos. Don’t you wish our moon had a cool name like that? Jupiter Next are the giant outer planets. They have lots of moons. Jupiter, for instance, has 53 moons! The most well-known are Io (pronounced eye-oh ), Europa, and Callisto. Jupiter also has the biggest moon in