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NASA’s Final 2012 Doomsday Debunking Video (We Hope)

December 20, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Despite countless articles published over the course of several years to the contrary, despite videos and interviews with some of the world’s most prominent and well-respected astronomers, despite new archaeological discoveries and well-established knowledge, despite the laws of physics, for crying [...]

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Earth Threatened By Glowing Green Asteroid?

June 6, 2012

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 the experts, let’s do a little bit of critical analysis on our own. Remove [...]

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Still Concerned About 2012?

March 10, 2012

Don’t be. Don Yeomans, senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, was kind enough to address some common questions regarding 2012, such as the much-misunderstood Mayan “long-count” calendar, Nibiru, pole-reversal and other such purported “doomsday” devices. Check it out. Still set on the world ending come Dec. 21? Back off, man. [...]

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Nibiru

February 22, 2010

Nibiru is a supposed wandering planet whose passage near Earth would cause a devastating apocalypse in the 20th century. The idea is a major part of 2012 mythology and was mentioned as part of the promotion for the disaster film 2012. The veracity of this rogue planet is in doubt. The idea is that the [...]

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Podcast: Planet X

November 6, 2009

Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again for Pluto. And even now there are some astronomers who think there’s a more distant planet out there. Oh, and there are a bunch of [...]

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