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For the most part, yes. The orbits of all the planets are stable, though the orbits of many comets and asteroids are not. The solar system will remain more or less the way it is now until the sun runs out of hydrogen in its core, which will be in about 5 billion years.

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Yes, the solar system is stable. The gravitational forces between the sun and the planets help maintain the structure of the solar system. Any changes in the solar system occur over long periods of time and are part of the natural evolution of celestial bodies.

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To a degree yes, and to a degree no. The Earth is expected to continue to exist until the Sun eventually swells and envelopes the planet in 500 million years or so - so being a cosmic accident or a global incidence does not occur. The Earth is ever-changing; the global climate is changing; the magnetic field wobbles and shifts; the moon is causing Earth's rotation to reduce and gradually making our days longer and longer - so really anything can happen at any given moment, no one really can know for certain. The stability of the Earth consists of many scientific components; and the stability of these individual components depends on the normacy of all the variabilities within its construct.

Science has given speculation to us based on normal, temporal and non incidental occurences; making the answer to this question a yes. The Earth is indeed, in the immediate environmental sense stable; if it is that nothing ever goes wrong. Most pragmatics claim that since the possibility of something going wrong exists, it is probable that something wrong will go wrong, and so the pragmatics consider the Earth unstable (as all things under the Laws of Thermodynamics); and as well predict that the Earth is not at all at a state of equalibrium. Either way both scientists and pragmatics are certain that the Earth will eventually become unstable in the very end.

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