Neil deGrasse Tyson, the popular astrophysicist at the helm of the Natural History Museum’s Hayden Planetarium, is making his way to Long Beach.

Tyson will explain the importance of cosmic bodies like asteroids crashing into each other — or into the earth — in his “Cosmic Collisions” lecture. While we may thank them for rendering dinosaurs extinct and thus paving the way for humans to wrest control of the planet, he has said, those cosmic collisions may one day be responsible for wiping us out, as well.

The event will be held in the Long Beach Terrace Theatre at 300 E. Ocean Blvd. on Monday, March 25, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets go on sale this Friday Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com and the Terrace Theatre box office.