A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, pointed out that, in addition to our planet, Mercury and Venus, could be equally crushed and engulfed by the Sun, but also some moons of Jupiter.

This would leave Mars and the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune orbiting.

Given this finding, Professor Boris Gaensicke of the University of Warwick noted that it is still “unclear whether the Earth can move fast enough before the Sun can catch up and burn it up, but if it does, it would still lose its atmosphere and ocean making it an inhospitable place.”

By then the Sun would be a red giant star, before ending up as a white dwarf, the final state of stars when they have burned up all their fuel.

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