The Sun will get hotter, scientists reveal when Earth could become uninhabitable

Elon Musk warned this week that "eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the Sun" - now scientists have discovered when that could happen.

Researchers from NASA and Toho University in Japan used advanced supercomputers to predict the long-term evolution of the Sun.

Their calculations suggest that life on Earth will become impossible by the year 1,000,002,021, as the Sun becomes hotter and brighter, which will increase global temperatures and gradually reduce oxygen levels.

They also found that in about five billion years, the Sun will enter a phase when it expands dramatically.

While this cosmic end is still far away, it's one of the reasons Musk continues to push for Mars colonization, they write. foreign media, the Telegraph reports.

"The sun is gradually expanding, and so we at some point have to be a multi-planet civilization because the Earth is going to burn," the billionaire said.

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It is known that NASA has long warned that, eventually, the Sun will run out of energy, but it also notes that the Sun is still less than halfway through its life and is expected to last another five billion years.

Researchers created year-to-year simulations to predict changes in climate and gas composition, according to the study published in Nature Geoscience.

They ran more than 400,000 simulations to predict when the world would end.

And they found that the Sun's increasing brightness will drive these changes, making Earth's climate unstable.

The study determined that the loss of oxygen would lead to a mass extinction on Earth.

As a result, oxygen-producing organisms will disappear, and this process will continue until only anaerobic microbes—organisms that can survive without oxygen—remain. /Telegraph/