Doomsday predictions

Earth Threatened By Glowing Green Asteroid?

June 6, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The Daily Mail is reporting that a youtube user has found a strange object while poking around in Google Sky. It looks suspiciously like a glowing green asteroid and he claims it’s heading right for us. But before we call in [...]

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Where’s My Doomsday? Remnants of Comet Elenin Pass by Earth Without Incident

October 17, 2011

If you were waiting for Comet Elenin to wreak havoc on Earth so that you didn’t have to pay off your credit card debt or go into work today, I’m sorry to inform you that doomsday didn’t happen. All that remained of Comet Elenin, — which wasn’t much — made its closest pass by Earth [...]

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NASA Answers Your Questions About Comet Elenin

August 17, 2011

Lord knows, we’ve tried. We’ve featured a couple of articles about Comet Elenin to try and answer questions and allay any fears about this comet; how it will just pass by Earth — harmlessly at 35 million km (22 million miles) at its closest approach — and an FAQ showing how much of the “information” [...]

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World Ending on May 21? Don’t Count on It

May 17, 2011

Why do some humans have a fixation on the world coming to an end? From ancient Nostradamus to Marshall Applewhite of Heaven’s Gate fame, there have been a myriad of ultimately failed predictions that the world will meet its demise. The latest prediction comes from Harold Camping, a preacher from California who says the Second [...]

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