Millions of spectators around the globe can enjoy the rare sight of "blood moon" on Sunday with no end-of-the-world fears, as NASA confirmed that the prophecies circulating were all nothing but hoaxes.

According to The Guardian, NASA busted the divinations and stated on its website that the occurrence of blood moon will not ultimately lead to the destruction of our home planet - not now or even anytime soon.

"NASA knows no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small," NASA said.

"In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years," the statement further reads.

The appearance of blood moon - with its bloody red hue and immensely huge size - brought to life doomsday predictions left and right, with most of them stemming from superstitious beliefs that religious leaders promulgate.

Superstitions and rare celestial activities come together inevitably, an associate professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department of Saint Joseph's University-Philadelphia, Allen Kerkeslager, told the Christian Science Monitor through an e-mail.

"'Why?' is almost irresistible to a brain with an evolutionary history that is simultaneously so similar to all other advanced mammals and yet just enough greater in the complexity of its memory systems to allow us to remember, reflect on and extrapolate meanings and intentions that go beyond what other mammals could conceive," Kerkeslager told Christian Science Monitor.

In other words, Kerkeslager said that humans have the tendency to think that there is a purpose or meaning to something that rarely happens and unusually seen. Kerkelager said that this natural tendency of humans is one of the reasons humanity thrived and evolved and cognitive scientists call it "hypersensitive agency detecting device."

Irvin Baxter, leader of the Endtime Ministries in Plano, Texas, is one of the known religious leaders who have spread doomsday prophecies via series of YouTube videos, The Guardian cites in the report as an example of doomsayer.

"Some prophecy teachers are declaring boldly that this tetrad just ahead signals that something is getting ready to happen, which will change the world forever," Baxter stated on his website

Meanwhile, some religious leaders believe that there is still time left before the world faces its destruction.

"My interpretation is that we have at least another 1,000 years. But I do believe these signs portend major changes, including a possible major war involving Israel and an economic collapse." Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries said as reported by The Guardian.

But ultimately, NASA has brushed off all these claims.

CTV News Toronto explains in a report that the big red moon to be viewed as spectacle today results from a combination of two phenomena: a lunar eclipse, which explains the reddish-orange color of the moon, and a supermoon, typically occurring when a full moon will be at its closest proximity to the earth, giving sky gazers on Earth a bigger illusion of the natural satellite.

The celestial sight will be the fourth "blood moon" occurrence in the last two years and is a part of the tetrad series. The last being appearance was in 1982, The Guardian reports. Earth will not be able to see another blood moon until 2033, CTV report adds.