'The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance': Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, new models hint

According to Live Science, new stellar evolution models suggest Earth might escape an otherwise grim fate when the sun eventually dies. In billions of years, the sun will expand to hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. But state-of-the-art simulations indicate Earth may still survive this cosmic catastrophe—a delicate balance that keeps our planet in the habitable zone just long enough to escape incineration.

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