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Scientists warn that Earth's oxygen levels could start decreasing significantly within 10,000 years due to the Sun's increasing luminosity, potentially transforming the planet's atmosphere and making it inhospitable for complex life, with implications for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life.
A study predicts Earth's oxygen levels could drop a million-fold within the next billion years due to the Sun's increasing brightness and geochemical cycles, leading to the collapse of complex life and challenging current methods of searching for extraterrestrial life based on oxygen as a biosignature.
Scientists predict that in about a billion years, Earth's atmosphere will revert to a methane-rich, low-oxygen state similar to before the Great Oxidation Event, which will likely end most oxygen-dependent life forms, although microbial life may persist. This future deoxygenation is driven by decreasing CO2 levels and increasing solar heat, with implications for understanding planetary habitability and searching for extraterrestrial life.