Leslie Mullen, the host of NASA's podcast "On a Mission," warned that there are a number of asteroids in space that can destroy Earth and cause mass extinction.
After the news came about the bizarre glowing objects in the sky above Chile, government officials denied the possibility that those objects were meteorites.
A team of researchers believes that an impact event on Earth that was caused by an asteroid 12,800 years ago could happen again because of Apophis 99942.