Earth will not be consumed by the dying Sun, at least not according to new research from the University of Leuven published Friday in Astronomy & Astrophysics. A study led by astrophysicist Mats Esseldeurs upends 15 years of scientific consensus by showing our planet could escape the solar inferno in roughly five billion years.

Earth's future doom has been predicted to be that of being engulfed by an expanding sun. However, recent research has established that........

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