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{{short description|Scientific projections regarding the far future}}
[[File:Red Giant Earth warm.jpg|thumb|274x274px|alt= A dark gray and red sphere representing the Earth lies against a black background to the right of an orange circular object representing the Sun| Artist's idea of the [[Earth]] several billion years from now, when the [[Sun]] is a [[red giant]].]]

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! scope="col" | Years from now
! scope="col" | Event

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| style="background: #f0dc82;" | [[File:Noun project 528.svg|16px|alt= Geology and planetary science|Geology and planetary science]]
| 10,000
| If the [[Wilkes Subglacial Basin]] "ice plug" fails in the next few centuries in a way that makes the [[East Antarctic Ice Sheet]] fall, it will take up to this long for the sheet to melt completely. [[Sea level]]s would rise 3 to 4 meters
 (10 to 13 feet).<ref>{{cite journal|last= Mengel|first= M.|author2= A. Levermann |title= Ice plug prevents irreversible discharge from East Antarctica|journal= Nature Climate Change|volume= 4|issue= 6|pages= 451–455|date= 4 May 2014|bibcode= 2014NatCC...4..451M|doi= 10.1038/nclimate2226}}</ref>
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| style="background: lavender;" | [[File:Five Pointed Star Solid.svg|16px|alt=Astronomy and astrophysics|Astronomy and astrophysics]]
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| style="background: #CEFF00;" | [[File:Butterfly icon (Noun Project).svg|16px|alt= Biology|Biology]]
| 100,000
|Native North American [[earthworm]]s, such as [[Megascolecidae]], will have spread north through the United States [[Upper Midwest]] to the [[Canada–United States border|Canada–US border]], recovering from the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet]] glaciation (38°N to 49°N), assuming a migration rate of 10&nbsp;meters
 (33 feet) per year.<ref>{{cite book|last1= Schaetzl|first1= Randall J.|last2= Anderson|first2= Sharon|title= Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology|url= https://archive.org/details/soilsgenesisgeom00scha|url-access= limited|date= 2005|publisher= Cambridge University Press|page= [https://archive.org/details/soilsgenesisgeom00scha/page/n120 105] | isbn = 9781139443463}}</ref> (Humans have already introduced [[invasive species|non-native]] [[invasive earthworms of North America]].)
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| style="background: lavender;" | [[File:Five Pointed Star Solid.svg|16px|alt= Astronomy and astrophysics|Astronomy and astrophysics]]
| 2.55 billion
| The Sun will have become the hottest it can be:
 5,550°C (10,000°F; 5,820 K). From then on, it will become cooler even though it will become brighter.<ref name="mnras386_1"/>
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| style="background: #f0dc82;" | [[File:Noun project 528.svg|16px|alt= Geology and planetary science|Geology and planetary science]]
| 2.8 billion
| Earth's surface temperature will reach around {{cvt|420|K|C F}}, even at the poles.<ref name=swansong/><ref name="global1"/>
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| style="background: lavender;" | [[File:Five Pointed Star Solid.svg|16px|alt=Astronomy and astrophysics|Astronomy and astrophysics]]
| 22
- billion
| 50 billion
| If the Earth and Moon are not engulfed by the Sun, by this time they will become [[Tidal locking|tidally locked]], with each showing only one face to the other so that there is no day or night.<ref name="tide1">
(contracted; show full)<ref name=loeb_2016>{{cite journal |last1=Loeb |first1=Abraham |year=2016 |last2=Batista |first2=Rafael |last3=Sloan |first3=W. |title=Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time |journal=Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |volume=2016 |issue=8 |pages=040 | arxiv = 1606.08448 |doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/040|bibcode=2016JCAP...08..040L }}</ref>
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