Remember the film "Don't Look Up" in which a comet decimates life on Earth even though scientists tried to warn everyone? That's not a figment of imagination - these things happen in space all the time. Planets are broken and reformed through such processes, and the Earth is no stranger to catastrophic hits in the past - remember dinosaurs? Me neither - because an asteroid wiped them from Earth.Now, scientists have found an asteroid that has the potential to hit Earth in the near-future. The…