https://kiddiedaily.com Daily kid-friendly news with bias indicators and fact checks. Updated every morning. en-us Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:00:39 +0000 editors@kiddiedaily.com (KiddieDaily Editors) https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-another-new-psyche-mission-flyby-image-of-mars.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-another-new-psyche-mission-flyby-image-of-mars.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science NASA released a composite image of Mars lit like a crescent as the Psyche mission flew by for a gravity assist. Watch a stunning time lapse of the whole flyby. 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From the Congo comes the story of the exce — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-josh-kerr-wants-to-run-the-fastest-mile-ever-this.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-josh-kerr-wants-to-run-the-fastest-mile-ever-this.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science We spoke with Danny Orr, senior director of product development at Brooks, to find out what it takes to build a track spike that can handle running a mile at more than 16 mph. The post Josh Kerr wants — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-a-quasar-breaks-the-record-for-most-distant-superm.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-a-quasar-breaks-the-record-for-most-distant-superm.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe. — 3 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-james-webb-telescope-uses-trippy-einstein-predicti.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-james-webb-telescope-uses-trippy-einstein-predicti.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang. — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-dead-coral-reef-found-alive-and-thriving-off-west.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-dead-coral-reef-found-alive-and-thriving-off-west.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science The long-lost mesophotic ecosystem near Benin may be part of an even bigger formation. The post ‘Dead’ coral reef found alive and thriving off West Africa appeared first on Popular Science — 3 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-nasas-perseverance-rover-provides-sweeping-view-of.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-nasas-perseverance-rover-provides-sweeping-view-of.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Description This view looking back up at the outside lip of the 490-foot-tall (150-meter-tall) rim of Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, th — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-its-absolutely-exciting-astronomers-discover-an-at.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-its-absolutely-exciting-astronomers-discover-an-at.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for bill — 3 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-actively-steerable-femtosat-constellations-for-in.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-actively-steerable-femtosat-constellations-for-in.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Michael RubensteinNorthwestern University, Chicago We propose a mission to use ~10,000 actively steerable femtosats to map the ring composition, atmospheric composition and density, and the magnetic f — 1 outlet covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-this-exotic-weirdo-exoplanet-has-a-rocky-surface-a.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-this-exotic-weirdo-exoplanet-has-a-rocky-surface-a.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system. — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-in-dresden-germany.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-in-dresden-germany.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 World News Melitta Bentz liked to drink coffee. But at the beginning of the 20th century, coffee was not prepared as it is today. When enjoying coffee, the coffee grounds in her mouth and the somewhat bitter aft — 1 outlet covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-sir-alex-ferguson-pays-tribute-to-former-rival-kev.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-sir-alex-ferguson-pays-tribute-to-former-rival-kev.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 World News Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says Kevin Keegan "carried the love of the game on his sleeve" as he paid tribute to his former rival. — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-king-cobras-may-be-riding-trains-across-india-comi.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-king-cobras-may-be-riding-trains-across-india-comi.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 World News The snakes may be tempted onboard by tasty rodents — but train rides can carry cobras far from their forest habitats. — 1 outlet covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-james-webb-space-telescope-looks-back-in-time-44-b.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-james-webb-space-telescope-looks-back-in-time-44-b.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. — 1 outlet covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-the-growing-crescent-of-mars-as-nasas-psyche-missi.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-the-growing-crescent-of-mars-as-nasas-psyche-missi.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Description This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-webb-catches-supermassive-black-hole-feeding-from.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-webb-catches-supermassive-black-hole-feeding-from.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a spinning disk around a supermassive black hole 800 li — 3 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-could-life-exist-on-this-nearby-world-in-a-first-a.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-could-life-exist-on-this-nearby-world-in-a-first-a.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science While the celestial body seems to host three features that could make a livable environment—an atmosphere, a rocky composition and a temperature that could allow liquid water to sit on the surface—res — 3 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-an-ancient-maya-astronomer-finally-has-a-name.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-an-ancient-maya-astronomer-finally-has-a-name.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science A Maya calendar formula bears the name Sak Tahn Waax, the first known Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer directly credited for such work. — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily. https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-summer-triangle-star-altair-is-variable-and-spins.html https://kiddiedaily.com/news/2026-07-21-summer-triangle-star-altair-is-variable-and-spins.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Science Altair, in the constellation Aquila the Eagle, is one of the closest stars to our solar system. It's variable in an unusual way, and it spins very fast! The post Summer Triangle star: Altair is variab — 2 outlets covering this story, bias-rated on KiddieDaily.