NOW
Today
You're alive. Earth has 8 billion humans. The universe is 13.8 billion years old.
1 YR
1 year from now
Earth completes another orbit. About 140 million babies will be born.
4 YR
2029
Asteroid Apophis passes Earth closer than some satellites — but misses.
25 YR
2050
The Arctic Ocean is expected to be ice-free in summer.
36 YR
2061
Halley's Comet returns to the inner solar system.
75 YR
100 years from now
Almost everyone alive today is gone. Average life expectancy may exceed 100.
175 YR
200 years from now
All people alive today have died. Memories of you fade unless written down.
975 YR
1,000 years from now
English has shifted so much it sounds like a foreign language.
10K YR
10,000 years
Earth may enter the next glacial period in its long ice-age cycle.
13K YR
13,000 years
Earth's axis points at Vega — Vega becomes the new North Star.
50K YR
50,000 years
Niagara Falls erodes upstream and reaches Lake Erie, vanishing.
100K YR
100,000 years
All current constellations are unrecognizable due to stellar drift.
250K YR
250,000 years
The Hawaiian island of Loihi rises above the sea.
500K YR
500,000 years
Earth has likely been hit by an asteroid 1 km wide somewhere by now.
1M YR
1 million years
Yellowstone's supervolcano is overdue. Mount Rushmore has weathered to nothing.
2M YR
2 million years
All current human-built structures have collapsed. Few traces remain.
7M YR
7.2 million years
If left alone, Mount Rushmore's faces have eroded into smooth rock.
10M YR
10 million years
New species evolve to fill ecological niches — possibly intelligent ones.
50M YR
50 million years
Africa collides with Europe — the Mediterranean Sea closes.
100M YR
100 million years
Saturn's rings vanish, pulled into the planet by gravity.
250M YR
250 million years
All continents merge into one supercontinent — Pangaea Ultima.
500M YR
500 million years
A nearby gamma-ray burst could likely have caused a mass extinction by this point.
600M YR
600 million years
The brightening Sun starves plants of CO₂ — photosynthesis collapses.
800M YR
800 million years
All multicellular life dies. Only microbes remain.
1.0B YR
1 billion years
Earth's oceans evaporate. The planet becomes a hot, dry rock.
2.0B YR
2 billion years
Earth's surface is hot enough to melt lead. Mars may be habitable.
3.0B YR
3 billion years
Andromeda galaxy is now visible filling our sky as it approaches us.
4.5B YR
4.5 billion years
Andromeda and the Milky Way collide and merge into 'Milkomeda'.
5.0B YR
5 billion years
The Sun runs out of hydrogen and starts becoming a red giant.
7.5B YR
7.5 billion years
The Sun swells to engulf Mercury, Venus, and likely Earth itself.
8.0B YR
8 billion years
The Sun shrinks into a white dwarf — a slowly cooling carbon crystal.
100.0B YR
100 billion years
All other galaxies have receded beyond our cosmic horizon. Our sky goes dark.
1T YR
1 trillion years
Star formation slows dramatically as galaxies run out of gas.
100T YR
100 trillion years
The last stars run out of fuel. The universe enters its 'degenerate era'.
10^15 YR
1 quadrillion years
Planets fall into their dead host stars due to gravitational drag.
10^19 YR
10 quintillion years
Stellar remnants are flung from galaxies by gravitational interactions.
10^20 YR
10²⁰ years
Most matter that remains has fallen into supermassive black holes.
10^34 YR
10³⁴ years
If protons decay, all ordinary matter — atoms, planets, dead stars — has dissolved.
10^40 YR
10⁴⁰ years
Only black holes remain. The era of black holes begins.
10^64 YR
10⁶⁴ years
Stellar-mass black holes finish evaporating via Hawking radiation.
10^100 YR
10¹⁰⁰ years
The last supermassive black hole evaporates. The universe is cold, dark, empty.
10^106 YR
10¹⁰⁶ years
The Dark Era. No light, no life, no events. Just photons drifting in nothingness.
10^INFINITY YR
10^1000 years
Heat death. Maximum entropy. Time has effectively no meaning anymore.
The universe is over.
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