---
title: "Timeline of the Future: Part I"
description: "Science allows us to do many amazing things. It enables us to analyze the bones of the ancients in order to better understand where we came from; it allows us to glimpse the microscopic organisms that currently share our planet, and it even lets us peek into the future -- foreseeing events like the Sun’s..."
date: "2013-12-03"
modified: "2013-12-03"
authors:
  - name: "Futurism"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/admin"
url: "https://futurism.com/timeline-of-the-future-part-i"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
---

# Timeline of the Future: Part I

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ftuure1.png>)

Science allows us to do many amazing things. It enables us to analyze the bones of the ancients in order to better understand where we came from; it allows us to glimpse the microscopic organisms that currently share our planet, and it even lets us peek into the future -- foreseeing events like the Sun’s expansion and the death of Earth. Of course, we can never say what will happen with 100% certainty, but we can use our data to make solid predictions about the future.

So join us on a journey to the furthest reaches of time, and see what the future has in store. Here is Part I of the Timeline of the Future.\*

![Image sources: NASA/ Wikimedia/ ESO](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/timetime-of-the-future-part-12.jpg>)
*Image sources: NASA/ Wikimedia/ ESO*

- 36,000 Years = The sun gets [a new neighbor](<http://www.universetoday.com/102920/>).
- 100,000 Years = Rest in Peace VY Canis Majoris.
- 1,000,000 Years ***=*** The sun gets [a rival](<http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0927/>).
- 1,400,000 Years = A [turbulent time](<http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2160>) in the solar system.
- 8,000,000 Years = So long, [Phobos](<http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mar_Phobos>) and Mars gets a ring!
- 100,000,000 Years = Chances of[ planet wide destruction](<http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Natural_Disasters/impacts.htm>) = very good

Be sure to check back to see Part II and beyond.

\*Editors note: All dates are approximations and may vary slightly depending on the source. Please do not use this to make travel plans.