Astronomers reveal Earth's "sad" fate when the sun dies

After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end. There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being swallowed up by the sun as it expands outwards, or simply being torn apart by gravity. The sun is expected to fade into a white dwarf after its death, so studying white dwarfs out in space allows astronomers to get an idea of how planets and moons in the rest of the solar system fare...