How many more years until the Earth explodes?

But don't worry, this scorching destruction of Earth is a long way off: about 7.59 billion years in the future, according to some calculations. Even if our planet somehow survives and remains in orbit around the bloated red giant Sun, Earth's natural orbital decay means it would merge with the dead Sun's remnant.
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How many more years until the Earth blows up?

Four billion years from now, the increase in Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, creating conditions more extreme than present-day Venus and heating Earth's surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct.
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What year is the Earth going to explode?

Fortunately, that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. Based on the geological record of cosmic impacts, Earth gets hit by a large asteroid roughly every 100 million years, according to NASA. However, smaller asteroid impacts do happen all the time.
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How long until the sun blows up?

Astronomers estimate that the sun has about 7 billion to 8 billion years left before it sputters out and dies. One way or another, humanity may well be long gone by then.
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What age do we live in?

Scientists have just assigned three new ages to the Holocene, which is the current epoch in which we live. They're calling this most recent age the Meghalayan, which began 4,200 years ago during a worldwide megadrought. The Holocene commenced 11,700 years ago after the end of the last ice age.
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How long will the Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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What will happen 5 billion years from now?

According to NASA, the Sun will stop producing heat through nuclear fusion around 5 billion years from now, and its core will become unstable and shrink. The Sun will ultimately fade away and turn into a dying star. If the Sun bursts, all human and plant life on Earth will perish.
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Can a planet explode?

As far as astronomers know, there is no internal mechanism or other phenomenon that could ever cause a planet to fly apart. Contrary to science fiction, planets are stable and causing one to explode would require some chemical or nuclear process which can provide an explosive punch of energy.
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What will happen to Earth in 2022?

Largest asteroid to approach Earth in 2022 will zoom past our planet this week. A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close to our planet in 2022.
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Will there be a supernova in 2022?

While scientists are confident a supernova will occur in 2022, whether it occurs in our galaxy is a different matter. In any given year, it is an unlikely prospect. On the other hand, one day it may just happen in our galactic neighbourhood.
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Where does the world end?

Verdens Ende ("World's End", or "The End of the Earth" in Norwegian) is located at the southernmost tip of the island of Tjøme in Færder municipality, Norway.
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What is happening to Earth right now 2021?

Global sea level rise accelerated since 2013 to a new high in 2021, with continued ocean warming and ocean acidification. The report combines input from multiple United Nations agencies, national meteorological and hydrological services and scientific experts.
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What will humans look like in 1 million years?

Perhaps we will have longer arms and legs. In a colder, Ice-Age type climate, could we even become even chubbier, with insulating body hair, like our Neanderthal relatives? We don't know, but, certainly, human genetic variation is increasing.
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What if the Sun is red?

When particles, such as smoke or dust, fill the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths of light — which look red — scatter more effectively. If the air is cleaner, there are more air molecules, which scatter shorter wavelengths or light, or blue light, more effectively. (Think clear blue sky.)
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Will the Sun ever burn out?

Earth will be scolded and become bone-dry. In about 5.5 billion years the Sun will run out of hydrogen and begin expanding as it burns helium. It will swap from being a yellow giant to a red giant, expanding beyond the orbit of Mars and vaporizing Earth—including the atoms that make-up you.
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Will humans go extinct in 2050?

By 2050, human systems could reach a "point of no return" in which "the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order."
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Will humans go extinct in 2100?

Metaculus users currently estimate a 3% probability of humanity going extinct before 2100.
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What era is 2021 in now?

The 21st (twenty-first) century is the current century in the Anno Domini era or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2001 (MMI) and will end on December 31, 2100 (MMC).
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What era is 2022 right now?

2022 (MMXXII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade. Centuries: 20th century.
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