NASA figures we’ve got about a billion years before the sun kills us all

March 04, 2021

By Tristan Greene

A team of researchers working with NASA have finally figured out when the sun’s going to burn off all the oxygen on our planet, thus destroying all life on Earth. By their calculation it’ll happen somewhere around the year 1,000,002,021. If you’re still on the waiting list for Hamilton tickets, you may need to plan accordingly. In a research paper published on Monday, the team describes the final moments before Earth loses its ability to support life as we know it: We find that future deoxygenation is an inevitable consequence of increasing solar fluxes, whereas its precise timing is modulated…

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