13/04/2016 Newsround

Good morning, Ayshah here with the best stories

Coming your way: Swimmers compete to be in team GB at the Olympics

and it's lambing time down on the farm.

Space now and experts once believed that reaching the closest star

outside our solar system would take thousands of years.

But now scientists say they may have come up with an idea to change that.

Leah's been looking into the plan that could take us further

Earth - just one of the planets orbiting our nearest star, the sun.

We belong to a galaxy called the Milky Way - made up

of at least 100 billion stars, with their own solar systems.

So far, humans have sent a probe to Pluto -

which is seven and a half billion miles away.

The spacecraft Voyager 1 has reached the edge of our solar system -

But now there's a plan to send spacecraft to a star in another

solar system - 25 trillion miles away!

Further than we've ever travelled before.

Using the technology that exists at the moment,

it would take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get

But some of the world's best scientists now think that by making

a spacecraft as small as a mobile phone chip,

it could travel faster, meaning it could take just 30 years!

We want to go and reach another star. It would be easy.

Traditionally, it would take a long time, so this is rather a neat idea

to have something we will hopefully see in our lifetime.

spacecraft like these into the Earth's orbit.

Each would have a solar sail and giant lasers on Earth would give

them a powerful push, to send them on their way

to reaching a speed of 100 million miles per second.

There are lots of problems to be overcome before the first

spaceships capable of going to other stars are built.

But many scientists think that what was once a distant dream

Man City fans will be very happy today as their team went

through to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

They beat Paris Saint Germain 1-0 with a late strike

Excitement is building ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

The pressure is on for athletes competing to be

The swimming trials started in Glasgow yesterday.

BBC reporter Nick Hope was there and has sent us this.

Hello and welcome to Glasgow where we've seen some pretty

World champion Adam Peaty kicked things off with

a brilliant win in the 100 metre breaststroke final.

His time of 58.41 seconds will be enough for him

to make the British Olympic team this summer.

Rival Ross Murdoch, who was racing in the pool he learnt

to swim in, was second and should also go to Rio.

Not trying to get a peak performance at trials like last year.

Trying to get a peak performance at the

The main job here was just to qualify.

We are qualified now, so don't take that for

The fastest swimmers always start in Lane 4 and that's

exactly where James Guy began his bid to reach Rio.

He powered clear of the other swimmers in the tough 400

metre freestyle final to claim gold and an Olympic place.

Scotland's Hannah Miley did the same in the

400 metres individual medley, where you swim all four strokes,

butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl.

Welsh star Jazz Carlin rounded things off with gold in the 200

metres freestyle final and will look to make

It's one of the busiest times of year for sheep farmers.

Lambing season is when thousands of lambs are born.

It all started in January and comes to an end this month,

so Leah went to a farm in North Wales to find out how

For Tom and Mali, it's the best time of year because they get

to help their parents deliver thousands of lambs,

They would go in a pen and with her and get fed and warm.

What's the best thing about lambing season for you?

There is always something different to do.

You've got to get up really early if you want to help.

And now the moment we've been waiting for.

Tom is able to safely deliver a baby lamb - after years of practice.

4000 lambs are expected to be born here, which makes it

I enjoy lambing the sheep because it's fun when you get

Last year, we had four that had four lambs.

After a wobbly start to life, each new lamb

is getting ready to explore their new home.

This baby wallaby is winning hearts near Sydney in Australia.

It was the size of a jelly bean when it was born and spent six

It has three months to go until he can be fully independent.

That's all from me, Newsround's back at 4.20 this afternoon.