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Scientists have been baffled to discover a 'clingy' planet that is ensuring its own doom.The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation every time it…

Going Nuclear: How The Atom Will Save The World by Tim Gregory (Bodley Head £25, 384pp)Tim Gregory works in what he calls ‘one of the most chemically exotic square miles on the planet’. He is a scientist at the UK’s National Nuclear…

'It was like something out of Jaws': Sir David Attenborough's film crew are attacked by tiger sharks in terrifying ordeal while filming for Our Planet II, director revealsSharks attack crew in seas around Laysan in …

Life on Mars... but only for four years: Red Planet 'too dangerous' for humans to survive on for prolonged missionScientists say if humans spend longer than 4 years the radiation becomes unsafeBy Milo Pope Updated: 10:11…

Members of the infamous Flat Earth Society are steadfast in their opinion that our planet is a disc, and that naysaying astronauts have been 'bribed' or are 'mistaken'.But a team of scientists from the University of Zurich is inviting…

Saturn has been confirmed to have more than 100 moons, meaning it may have the most of any planet in the solar system.The planet has overtaken Jupiter, which has only 95 moons, according to the University of British Columbia.The…