New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

In approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

If Earth survives our Sun turning into a red giant, it could find itself a lifeless ... at which point Earth’s oceans would be vaporized by runaway greenhouse effect—long before the risk ...

Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

the sun’s heat will turn oceans into steam, making life unsustainable. If Earth survives the red giant phase, the planet will heat up into a lava world, scorched beyond repair, revealed by the ...

Unlike giant stars that explode into a supernova and collapse into a black hole, a medium star like Earth's sun just keeps on trucking until it runs out of nuclear fuel, suffering a more prolonged ...

That is likely to be Earth's fate. The sun will eventually ... appear to have frozen water oceans that will likely thaw as the outer layers of the red giant expand. "As the sun becomes a red ...