Films and media love an end of the world story.

From zombie apocalypses to the sun exploding, these nightmarish tales are constantly being told…but is any of it true?

This talk will dive deeper into the possibilities put forward by the media, applying science to see if any of them could be a reality, and looking at other planets to see what happened to them when the same event occurred.

Finally, we’ll be looking at the question of which of these dramatic fates could signal the end of Earth as we know it.