Earth could be destroyed within the next billion years!

Scientists at NASA have today confirmed long-held suspicions that the Earth might be destroyed within the next one billion years.

The spokesman for the scientists affirmed that it was a matter of "could" and not "would", and the destruction of the Earth remained a "50/50 possibility".

"Like all predictions in the future we're pretty much just hedging our bets. I mean, it's not like anybody alive today will be here in a billion years anyway. To be honest, we could pretty much say anything. Here's another for you: there's a chance aliens will invade in the year 3093."

Head of the Doomsday Society, John Long, said this was the news his group had been waiting for and "years of mocking have been finally vindicated".

NASA refused to commit to an exact cause of Earth's destruction within the next billion years, simply stating, "It could be an asteroid, climate change, solar flares, God... Anything's possible."

Sales of nuclear bunkers and tinned beans have skyrocketed in light of the news.