An asteroid may hit in 2032. How can astronomers stop it?

The Current

An asteroid the size of a football field is hurtling towards our planet, with a roughly 1.6 per cent chance of impact in 2032. Those may seem like good odds, but it’s prompted astronomers to issue the first ever Potential Asteroid Impact Notification. We look at what’s being done to avert catastrophe — and what researchers are learning from a different asteroid, which might contain clues about how life developed here on Earth.