Moons

featured moons

A beautiful image of the Moon taken by the Galileo spacecraft on December 7, 1992. It shows a partially lit Moon with mild red and green color.

Earth's Moon

The Moon makes Earth more livable by moderating its wobble.

Moons of Mars

Mars has two small moons - Phobos and Deimos.

Moons of Jupiter

Dozens of moons swarm around this giant world.

Moons of Saturn

Saturn has more moons than any other planet.

Image of blue Uranus, with three purple marks in it. Surrounding Uranus is a ring.

Moons of Uranus

Uranus moons are named for great literature.

This distant view of Neptune shows the planet as small, shiny orb surrounded by faint rings with stars and galaxies in the background.

Moons of Neptune

Neptune has 16 known moons.

A composite image with Pluto's moon, Charon behind Pluto. Both worlds appear reddish with tan features in this enhanced color image.

Moons of Pluto

Pluto has five moons.

Explore Our Solar System's Moons

Our solar system has hundreds of known moons orbiting planets and dwarf planets. Even some asteroids have moons.

Moons – also called natural satellites – come in many shapes, sizes and types. They are generally solid bodies, and a few have atmospheres.

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a trio of ravioli-shaped small moons of Saturn.

This montage of views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's small ring moons: Atlas, Daphnis and Pan at the same scale for ease of comparison.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

slightly blurry image of brown asteroid with smaller same to the left of it against blackness of space

More Moons

Moons, or natural satellites, also orbit dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (icy bodies that orbit the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune).

Earth's Moon

All About Our Moon

From lighting up our skies to maintaining a geological record of our solar system’s history, Earth’s closest celestial neighbor plays a pivotal role in the study of our planet and our solar system.

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It's Just a Phase

Sometimes the entire face of the Moon glows brightly. Other times we see only a thin crescent of light. Sometimes the Moon seems to disappear. These shifts are called moon phases.

Learn the Moon's Phases