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NASA supercomputer reveals when Earth will become uninhabitable

By T.K. Randall
October 20, 2025 ·  8 comments

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) The Earth remains the only example of a habitable world that we know of, but its continued habitability relies on a range of factors, including one that we can do absolutely nothing about.

5 billion years from now, as the Sun begins to die, it will grow several times larger than it is now, effectively cooking the Earth's surface in the process.

But the Earth will have become uninhabitable long before then.

Now, thanks to a supercomputer and a collaboration between NASA and Toho University in Japan, researchers have been able to run complex models predicting the distant future of our planet.The main issue is that, over time, the Sun will become brighter and larger long before it gets to the point of turning into a red giant, triggering major climate shifts on our planet.

According to the team's calculations, the Earth will become effectively uninhabitable in just over one billion years - with the planet becoming so hot that the oceans will literally evaporate.

That said, much of this is a moot point because the amounts of time we're talking about here are so vast that our civilization - if it even still exists by then - will have changed beyond recognition.

After one billion years of time and evolution, would we even still be 'human' at all ?

Source: Daily Galaxy | Comments (8)

Tags: Earth, Sun