Did you know it takes light only 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth - but 176 years to drive the same distance?

Mercury has tall hills and high cliffs - perfect for rock climbing. Unfortunately, even with a ton of sunblock, you'd fry up there.

Venus has mountains, valleys and volcanoes just like Earth. But before you pack your bags, read on...

Even though 70 per cent of our planet is covered in water, we can only use one percent of it. Earth is also the only planet that humans can live on because we have the most oxygen and water.

NASA scientists have just celebrated the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander, which is already teaching us a lot about the red planet. Get the 411 on our mysterious neighbor!

It's the second largest planet in our solar system and it's named after a god! Read on about Saturn, its 30 moons and a whole lot more, right here!

Uranus is always picked on. It isn't named after a body part. And here's another tip. It's not pronounced "your anus." You say the name of this planet, "yoor a nus." All together now.

What planet hasn't made an entire circle around the sun since it was discovered? That'd be Neptune but you already knew that didn't you. Now can you tell me why the planet is such a deep blue?

One minute you're standing in your yard staring at the moon and the next minute hundreds of baseballs whiz by at 30,000 miles per hour.

Confused about Chemistry? Looking for simple answers? It's not that hard to follow if you break it down. Here's the basics of chemistry, matter, atoms and the 411 on the Periodic Table of Elements.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured colliding spiral galaxies, another colliding galaxy and other close-ups of space we'd never see with the human eye. Check out how this telescope works.

Do you know the difference between a solar system, a galaxy and the universe? How about which planets have rings or moons? Test your knowledge of Mercury, Mars, Venus, and more with this Space quiz.

If the last star map you looked at showed you where J. Lo lives, maybe you should spend a few days at space camp!

Did you know the Olympics were originally part of a religious festival honoring Zeus? Get the 411 on the dude who started it all.

Space experts say they’ve found large amounts of a gas that could be a sign of life on the red planet.

When the space shuttle Discovery lifted off last month, it was carrying a human guinea pig with the crew!