The new Netflix film Don't Look Up contains a far-fetched, but very serious warning about why we should trust scientists. That's according to astronomer Dr. Amy Mainzer who acted as the scientific ...
This post was updated at 11:23 p.m. Amy Mainzer didn’t plan on studying asteroids when she graduated from her doctoral program in 2003. But now, Mainzer – who received her doctorate of astronomy from ...
Adam McKay’s newest movie Don't Look Up (now on Netflix), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Tyler Perry and Cate Blanchett, tells the fictional story of a comet set to ...
As a professor at the University of Arizona's College of Science, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Amy Mainzer knows a lot about space. Her work primarily focuses on assessing the dangers flying ...
Amy Mainzer likes to quote a mentor who taught her the three basic steps to prevent asteroids from crashing into Earth: “Find them early, find them early, and find them early.” “We can't do anything ...