Time for everybody to panic!  According to The Sun, based in the U.K., a giant asteroid could be on course to hit Earth, causing massive devastation.  An international team, including NASA experts, say a 560-meter wide space rock has been discovered heading this way. 

They say the odds of it hitting Earth are about one-in-one thousand.  In cosmic terms, they say these odds are high enough for the threat to be taken extremely seriously.

Now before you go running for the hills in a panic, I should probably mention that scientists have 172 years to work out how to deal with it. 

That's right - it if does hit, it's not likely to do so until the year 2182.  I don't know about you, but I'm planning to be dead by then.