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A NASA-backed study predicts that in about one billion years, Earth's atmosphere will lack enough oxygen to support life due to the aging Sun consuming atmospheric CO₂, leading to a barren, desert-like planet with only anaerobic microorganisms surviving, highlighting the planet's fragile and temporary nature.
A new study suggests that Earth's oxygen levels could drop drastically, leading to suffocation and the death of most life on the planet. This extreme drop in oxygen would resemble the state of Earth before the Great Oxidation Event, which occurred around 2.4 billion years ago. While this scenario is not expected to happen for at least another billion years, it highlights the potential challenges humanity may face in the future. However, by that time, humans may have already established colonies on other planets, and some microbial life forms could potentially survive even without oxygen.