Earth Will Go Dark For 6 Days In December 2020? NASA Refutes The Claim, Says False Report Circulating Since Last Decade

From doomsday theories to stories on asteroids ending lives on Earth, multiple theories on Earth, Sun, Moon and planets go viral on social media platforms every other day. However, lately, a false report has being widely shared on social media. It said that 'NASA confirmed Earth will go dark for six days in December 2020’. As the false claims went viral, NASA took to Twitter rubbishing the claims. The space observatory confirmed that they have not issued any such statement with misinformation. They also wrote that Earth will not be dark for six days like said in the reports and that such claims have been going around for a decade now.

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