Why will the earth blow up?

Answer 1

There is absolutely no chance of the Earth exploding.

Answer 2

The sun (hopefully) won’t explode.

It’ll start to die in about 4.5 - 5 billion years, causing it to cool down and become a white dwarf and then will form into a solar nebula with the remains of the sun and that will burn for billions and billions of years.It might explode in the future though.

Answer 3

Although the Earth itself is a stable planet not expected to spontaneously explode, it is exposed to astronomical phenomena and could potentially collide with another body such as a rogue planet or star, although these are rather unlikely. When the Sun expands to its red giant phase in about seven and a half billion years, its outer edge is expected to be well beyond the current orbit of Earth. Drag on the Sun's gaseous outer envelope will cause Earth's orbit to decay and fall further into the Sun; although by then, loss of some of the Sun's mass from its own solar wind will cause our orbit to increase. However, long before these events take place, the gradual increase in energy output from the Sun will boil off Earth's oceans and cause our planet to become entirely molten and uninhabitable.

Answer 4

Earth will not explode. Eventually the star Earth orbits, Sol, will run out of small elements to fuse and explode (go Supernova), expanding to the size of Earth's orbit, and in the process consuming Earth. However, this does not qualify as Earth exploding. I wonder what they do teach them at these schools!

Answer 5

It will never explode, short of being struck by another Mars-sized body (as helped form the moon ~4 billion years ago). Unless the sun has a close encounter with another star over the next several billion years - itself also having a solar system - then this is unlikely ever to occur.

However, the Earth's surface will be burnt to a cinder, and it may in its entirety be engulfed by the expanding red giant sun in about four to five billion years.

Answer 6

It won't. The sun will eventually die when it runs our of fuel at its core, but it is not massive enough to explode.

Answer 7

There is no physical way that it could. Even the largest volcanic eruption would not significantly physically affect it.

Answer 8

in 2012