Category: Kids News

The New Horizons spacecraft sent images of Pluto, back to Earth. Scientists can see that large areas of the dwarf planet’s surface, were formed by ice volcanoes. They believe it’s possible, that the heat from Pluto’s core, could be maintaining an underground ocean of liquid water, beneath the icy surface. Could something live there?

Today is Siblings Day, so thank your brothers and sisters for being born! You might not always get along, but you can always love each other. It’s also International Safety Pin Day. In 1849, Walter Hunt sold the rights to his amazing little invention, the safety pin, to the W R Grace Company for only $400!

Today is Encourage A Young Writer Day, so I’m encouraging you, yes you, to write a story! Use your imagination, to make it as silly, scary, or realistic as you like. It’s also Farm Animals Day, so you could add a talking cow, or a chicken that wears a tutu. Anything is possible!

In the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, indigenous tribes like the Kukama-Kukamiria, raise honeybees. Unlike European honeybees, their bees are stingless. The honey is also different, depending on the bees’ diet. Amazon plants create different chemicals in honey, that make it useful as medicine to treat infections, diabetes, pneumonia, arthritis, and even cancer. That’s a sweet treatment!

Every year, the World Happiness Report compiles a list of the top 10 happiest countries in the world. After surveying residents in 150 countries, about subjects such as generosity, life expectancy, social support, and freedom. Finland was Number 1, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Israel, and New Zealand.

With the International Space Station retiring from service in 2030, NASA is joining up with private companies, to make sure work can continue in space. The first private mission to the ISS blasted off yesterday, carrying 4 members from the Axiom Space company. The crew will be doing scientific research, during their 8-day stay.

Did you know, it’s Take Your Parents To The Playground Day? Gather some snacks from the kitchen, and a ball or frisbee, then surprise them with your plans for a picnic at the park! Be sure to push them on the swings, and catch them when they come down the slide, haha!

Don’t call me Alexa today. Call me Malecksahchakahowie. It’s Name Yourself Day! Make a name tag with your new name on it so everyone else will know what to call you, too! It’s also Unicorn Day! Maybe your unicorn will name itself Frank, instead of Princess Rainbow Sparkle-Toes. Have a fun day!

Workers at a New Zealand french fry factory, found an unexpected object, rolling down the conveyor belt. Mixed in with the potatoes, was a muddy hand grenade! Luckily, it was an non-explosive training grenade, from World War 2. It’s a good thing they didn’t try to slice it up!

The newly-detected galaxy HD1, is the most distant galaxy ever discovered. The faint red light from the cluster of stars, has taken 13.5 billion years to reach Earth. Astronomers say the galaxy existed, when the Universe was only 330,000,000 years old. It’s difficult to study something so far away, but they’re doing their best.