Lunar eclipse 2015 is upon us. While there have been thousands of lunar eclipses just within the history of man, to say nothing of the history of the planet and its moon, this lunar eclipse is seen as special. Lunar…
Doomsday Clock Set At 5 Minutes To Midnight
If you’ve never heard of the Doomsday Clock, you’re not alone. It isn’t a clock that predicts time or doomsday events directly, it is more of a visual metaphor devised by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to measure and analyze…
Doomsday Preacher Harold Camping Dies
Harold Camping, who has been notoriously known as the doomsday preacher, died at the age of 92 on Sunday, after suffering injuries from a fall. Camping’s fame and fortune rose with his ability, or apparent inability, to predict the date…
Doomsday Castle: Preparing for Armageddon
There have been predictions of “doomsday” for hundreds of years. From Y2K, to the most recent scare of December 21, 2012, people have been preparing themselves, in numerous ways for the day that life will stop as we all know…
Hawking: Earth Doomed, Humans Must Explore Space
Stephen Hawking made a career out of investigating and explaining the cosmos to the layman. Now the renowned physicist is telling us that we need to get off the planet and (relatively) fast. The AP reports that Hawking was recently…
NASA: Asteroid 2012 Da14 Will Not be Hitting the Earth Today
Today at around 2:20 pm EST an asteroid named 2012 da14 will come within 17,200 miles of the surface of Earth. Almost one year ago NASA was able to determine that the asteroid definitely does not pose a danger to…
Asteroid to Give Earth a Near Miss on February 15
NASA this weekend revealed that an asteroid named 2012 DA14 will come very close to Earth on February 15. The object will swing within 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles) of the Earth’s surface – close enough to pass within the geosynchronous…
“Doomsday” Asteroid Won’t Hit Earth in 2036
Earlier this week, astronomers with the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that they were collecting data on the asteroid Apophis as it made its most recent approach to Earth. The data was, among other things, meant to narrow the prediction…
Mayan Calendar Doomsday Prophecies a Hoax, Says NASA
Predictions about the end of the world on Friday, December 21 are reaching a fever pitch. From rogue planets to shifting poles, the crazy ideas put forth for how humanity will soon perish resemble countless past doomsday prophecies that haven’t…
U.S. Government Says the World Won’t End Dec 21, Which Means the World Is Definitely Ending Dec 21
The world didn’t end on May 21st. The world once again failed to stop existing on October 21st. The world is also not going to end on December 21st. But don’t bother telling that to your weird cousin in his…