"NASA Monitors Massive Bennu Asteroid for Potential Earth Impact"

NASA is tracking an asteroid named Bennu, which is larger than the Empire State Building and has a .05% chance of hitting Earth in 2182. Scientists are working on solutions to mitigate the hazard of asteroid collisions, with one successful mission involving altering the trajectory of an asteroid using a spacecraft. Bennu, discovered in 1999, has come close to Earth multiple times and contains water and carbon, the building blocks of life.