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The Europa Clipper will embark on a journey of 2.8 billion km to reach Europa, a mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter. 

NASA blasts off to Jupiter’s moon

NASA has embarked on a 2.8 billion km journey to Europa to see if life could be sustained on the mysterious icy moon, which has twice the amount of water as Earth’s ocean under its icy shell

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Heamasi Makasini on the run. Picture: Michael Gorton. NSWRL Junior Reps, Harold Matthews Cup round three, Newcastle Knights vs Western Suburbs Magpies at St Johns Oval, 17 February 2024

Meet Australia’s million dollar kid

The nation’s richest schoolkid is rising NRL star Heamasi Makasini, who plays rugby union for his high school but has just signed a massive $1 million-plus deal with league’s Wests Tigers

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Olivia Rodrigo performs at The O2 Arena on May 17, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Nicky J Sims/Getty Images for Live Nation)

Olivia Rodrigo falls through stage

Touring US singer Olivia Rodrigo scarcely skipped a beat after the star tumbled down an open hatch while performing onstage during her final Melbourne show WATCH THE VIDEO

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KIDS NEWS2024: Olympic skateboarder Chloe Covell, pictured in Coogee at an August fan event for Red Bull after returning from Paris. First use reserved for Kids News, Monday14 October 2024. Picture: Anna Kucera  Red Bull

How Chloe Covell keeps her cool

Kids News was stoked to meet one of our Team Australia heroes, skateboarder Chloe Covell, the youngest of our Paris Olympians, who reveals a surprising new trick in our exclusive Q&A

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VIDEOGRABS >>Princess Catherine is set to return to official public duties after revealing she has finished chemotherapy and is now “cancer free” after nine months of treatment. The Princess of Wales announced she has defeated the mystery illness in a heartfelt video message in Norfolk revealing how “incredibly tough” the cancer diagnosis has been on her family. Joined by Prince William and their children George, Charlotte, and Louis., Credit @KensingtonRoyal on X

What do the royal kids fight over?

Prince George is third in line to the British throne, with siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis right behind, but like millions of kids worldwide, the young royals still argue about this one item

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Dubbed “On the Trail of the Golden Owl,” the search captivated ten of thousands in France — on a quest to find a buried statue of an owl.

Treasure found after 30 year hunt

The world’s longest scavenger hunt has ended with the discovery of an elusive, extremely valuable golden owl, finally found three decades after the statue was first stashed in a top secret location

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Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight  with his 2024 AFL Premiership Posters of the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions. Picture: Ian Currie

Footy fever in Knight’s AFL posters

Herald Sun cartoonist and Kids News favourite Mark Knight has unveiled his AFL premierships posters for 2024 ahead of Saturday’s blockbuster match between the Lions and the Swans

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Birtles and the Bean, a reenactment of the journey from London to Melbourne originally undertaken in 1927 by Australian Adventurer, Francis Birtles.

Pictured: Daily Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown and Editor-at-large Matthew Benns with their Bean car outside Australia House, Strand, London as they start their three month journey to Australia.

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Time-travelling adventurers set off

Daily Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown and editor-at-large Matthew Benns have set out on an epic 24,000 km journey to recreate Francis Birtles’s 1927 drive from London to Melbourne

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10-year-old Jillian Strong at her Bellbowrie home, Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - Picture: Richard Walker

New Spelling Bee champs crowned

After over 70,000 student registrations, three riveting rounds and every state and territory in Australia joining the hive, it’s time to meet the national champions of the 2024 PM’s Spelling Bee

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A crowd watches as the full moon is seen between the clouds from Balg Hill south of Sydney, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. The Supermoon, at perigee is the closest it has been to Earth since January 1948. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Where to see Harvest Supermoon

The largest full moon of the year, the Harvest Supermoon will be visible in the skies over Australia tonight, Wednesday 18 September – find out why this supermoon is not to be missed

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TOPSHOT - A Sherrif block the street outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15, 2024 following a shooting incident at former US president Donald Trump's golf course. Trump's campaign reported Sunday that there had been "gunshots in his vicinity" but added that the Republican presidential candidate was safe. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Trump safe after second attempt

The FBI is investigating a second attempted assassination of former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump while he was playing golf in Florida – how did it happen again?

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TOPSHOT - This still image taken from a SpaceX and Polaris broadcast on September 12, 2024, shows US fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman (EV1) peeking out to space from a hatch structure called "Skywalker", during the first private spacewalk performed by the crew of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission. After trekking deeper into space than any humans in the last half-century, a pioneering private crew is set to make history September 12, 2024, with the first-ever spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman, launched early Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, reaching a peak altitude of 870 miles (1,400 kilometers). (Photo by Polaris Program / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SpaceX / Polaris" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

First tourist ‘sets foot’ in space

A tech billionaire has made history as the first civilian to complete a space walk – a feat only ever accomplished previously by professional astronauts. See the amazing photos here

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Protesters confront police outside the Land Forces 2024 arms fair in Melbourne on September 11, 2024. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Melbourne protests turn ugly

Streets outside Melbourne’s Land Forces Expo descended into chaos on Wednesday as anti-war activists threw manure and rocks at police in violent scenes labelled ‘a disgrace’ – what happened?

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mark Knight toon on death of James Earl Jones

Social media Australia’s Death Star

Parents battling social media harm is like the Rebellion fighting the Death Star as Mark Knight channels Darth Vader’s much-needed voice of authority in tribute to the actor who voiced him

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EMBARGOED UNTIL 7.01AM SEP 12, 2024. World record holder for most tricks performed by a horse in one minute. Picture: Guinness World Records / Mark Evans

Weirdest world records revealed

Whether it’s the most tricks performed by a sheep in one minute or the fastest time it takes to put on 10 pairs of underpants, here are some of the strangest feats in Guinness World Records 2025