Former NASA astronauts will present evidence that our planet has survived large-scale asteroid impacts during the last ten years.

The presentation will be conducted in celebration of the Earth Day on April 22. The visualization of the data gathered from a nuclear weapons warning network will show that there are 10 times more asteroid impacts have occurred in our planet in the past few years that we thought.

According to the former astronauts, 26 atomic-bomb scale explosions have happened in unpopulated areas across the world. In a recent statement released by B612 Foundation, the foundation hosting the event, its CEO Ed Lu said that, "This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. It shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare-but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought."

Lu also explained to Phys.org that the Earth managed to survive these destructive asteroid impacts because of "blind luck." He also added that the goal of his organization is to identify and track these asteroids years before they reach our planet, giving us enough time to deflect them or change their trajectory.

The Ball Aerospace teamed up with the B612 Foundation in creating the Sentinel Infrared Space Telescope Mission. The space telescope will be positioned in an orbit close to the Sun and Earth and will be used in tracking hundreds of asteroids that might hit our planet. The space telescope mission is a privately-funded spacecraft and will be launched sometime in 2017 to 2018 using the Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX.

Aside from the presentation, the event, titled Saving the Earth by Keeping Big Asteroids Away will be graced by Space Shuttle astronaut Tom Jones and Bill Anders of the Apollo 8. This event will be held at the Museum of Flight in Seattle at 6 p.m. PDT. Entrance is free to the public and the event will be streamed live in the foundation's website.