India, May 7 -- A NASA-led study has now confirmed that the end of life on planet Earth will be through the lack of oxygen, and not by an extraterrestrial occurrence. According to a Toho University study that tries to understand how the planet would see the end of life, the slow fade of life on Earth won't come all of a sudden. Instead, it will happen with a lack of oxygen in the air, the most necessary element of human existence on the planet.

The study done by Toho University in Japan is powered by NASA modelling, and it hints at oxygen loss as a subtle reason for annihilation of human life.

However, the study also suggests that it will not happen anytime soon, but is instead billions of years away.

Toho University researchers used p...