This is when life will end on Earth, as per a supercomputer

As much as humans are fascinated by the past, we’re even more obsessed with predicting the future. Whether it’s personal, professional, or even astronomical, we want to know what tomorrow holds—today. While most future predictions are exciting or even humorous, one supercomputer’s forecast about when life will end on Earth is deeply unsettling.In a collaborative project with Japan's University of Toho, NASA scientists made use of supercomputers to model the future of Earth's habitability. The findings offered a clear timeline of the end of life on the planet. When will life end on Earth? Is it soon, and should we be concerned? Let's find out.According to the study, the Sun will be the ultimate cause of the collapse of life on the planet. Over the next billion years, its output will increase, gradually heating the planet beyond the suitability for life. The research estimated that life on Earth will end around the year 1,000,002,021, when the surface conditions will be too extreme to even support the most resilient organisms.While the end may be far, far away, the decline will begin way earlier. With the Sun increasing the temperature, Earth's atmosphere will change, leading to a decline in oxygen levels, a rise in temperatures and worse air quality levels. These shifts in the atmosphere were projected through detailed climate change and solar radiation models, mapping out the end of life on Earth, which, though slow, is irreversible.Signs of changes in the atmosphere have already begun to be visible. The most powerful solar storms and coronal mass ejections have been experienced in the past 20 years. These phenomena affect the planet's magnetic field, reducing the oxygen levels and giving an insight into the long-term effects described in the models. Not only astronomical but also human-driven climate change is severing the blow. Rising global temperatures and melting polar ice are acting as catalysts to the billion-year benchmark.Well, while some scientists are turning to technology to figure out an escape, such as enclosed life-support systems or artificial habitats, others are suggesting escaping the planet to potentially habitable sites such as Mars.Along with predicting an end to life on Earth, the research also sounds alarm bells to begin taking necessary steps to save the planet and not make it inhabitable sooner than predicted.