In a sense, and according to special relativity, they are. This is going to get complicated, but I’ll try to explain it as simply as possible. The key thing you have to realize is that everything, (planets, cheetas, your grandmother, an '85 Yugo sitting in a parking lot) moves at the speed of light.
That’s insane, monkey! It can’t possibly be true! Ah, but it is. It’s Special Relativity. Time is not separate from space, which is why it’s properly called “spacetime”.
The Universe has four dimensions - three spatial dimensions and one of time. You may have heard that time slows down when an object approaches the speed of light. I’m going to attempt to explain why.
Light has zero mass and all of its motion is expressed in the three spatial dimensions. It’s not moving through the dimension of time at all. That '85 Yugo sitting in a parking lot isn’t moving in the spatial dimensions. Instead, all of its motion occurs in the dimension of time. If you start that puppy up and get on the highway, then some of its motion is transfered to the spatial dimensions and it slows down in time.
Courtesy of Dr. Brian Greene, there’s a good analogy for this. Imagine two Yugos traveling North bound at fifty miles an hour toward a finish line 100 miles away. They are traveling in only one dimension: the N/S axis. Yugo 2 turns and starts traveling NE at fifty miles an hour, while Yugo 1 continues N at 50 mph. Yugo 2 is now traveling in two dimensions - the N/S axis and the E/W axis. Half of Yugo 2’s motion is still North bound, but now half of its motion is east bound. 25 mph along the North/South axis and 25 mph along the East/West axis. Moving East has caused Yugo 2 to slow down along the N/S axis, but it is still moving at a total of 50 mph. Yugo 1 wonders why he can cross the finish line so much sooner than Yugo 2 when they’re traveling at the same speed.
Now imagine that the N/S axis is time and the E/W axis is space. If you stay still in space (i.e. stationary on the E/W axis) you are zipping along in time at the speed of light. If you start moving in space, i.e. the E/W axis, your speed w/ regards to time slows down. You are still moving at the same total speed, but you are moving in more than one dimension.
Light travels purely along the E/W (space) axis. It doesn’t move at all along the N/W (time) axis. We are made of mass so we can’t do that. Some of our motion must occur in the N/W (time) axis (the vast majority of it, as it turns out). This is why light seems so quick. It’s only traveling in three dimensions, while we have to travel in four. But if you add up our total speed in those four dimensions, guess what? It totals c - the speed of light. That’s Special Relativity.
To dopers who may quibble with the above explanation: Be kind, I know it is a gross over simplification. I am only talking about special relativity, not general relativity, and sure as hell not string or m theory. Trying to keep it simple.