Before you hit the "share" button on that story about the Earth's destruction by an asteroid this month, know this: NASA says it won't happen.

An artist's rendering of a large asteroid impact on Earth.

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Despite the claims from social media that the end of humanity is imminent, there is no scientific evidence that a catastrophic impact will happen between Sept. 15 and 28. The chatter and rumors spread so quickly that NASA felt it was necessary to issue a response to debunk the hoax.

"There is no scientific basis –not one shred of evidence –that an asteroid or any other celestial object ,"Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a news release.

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The widely distributed rumor alleges that a massive impact would occur in that two-week period near Puerto Rico and would trigger mass destruction. But Chodas said in the release that if there were a huge impact coming in the next four or five weeks, scientists would have known about it by now.

The Near-Earth Object Observations Program has not found any comets or asteroids that pose a threat to Earth in the near future, and the release also mentioned that there is only a 0.01 percent chance of a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid hitting our planet in the next century.

NASA has spent more time in recent years debunking myths spread far and wide by social media. Space.com said rumors of a comet impact in 2011 forced the administration , and when fears that the end of the Mayan calendar would lead to an apocalypse via cosmic event, NASA yet again eased our fears.

The organization also last month that suggested Mars would be as close to Earth as the Moon on Aug. 27, giving our sky the appearance of two moons.

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