Asteroid scientist Amy Mainzer found herself in a unique position these past few months: chatting with Leonardo DiCaprio about science and asteroids. Mainzer served as the science advisor for ...
NASA is about to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to nudge it into a new orbit. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is practice for deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't ...
PHOENIX - A University of Arizona professor has been appointed by NASA to lead a project that will track Near-Earth Objects. Dr. Amy Mainzer is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at UArizona. She says ...
TUCSON (KVOA) - The University of Arizona will lead a mission to discover potentially dangerous asteroids and comets. NASA hopes this mission, known as the "Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission", ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's only space telescope dedicated to planetary defense has turned off ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Armageddon is not imminent. Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton can stand down. There is no apocalyptic asteroid barreling toward a catastrophic collision with ...
Amy Mainzer, Ph.D., is an astronomer and astrophysicist. She is one of the world’s leading asteroid hunters at NASA and the host of a popular children’s show about astronomy. In September, Mainzer ...
“Extinction level” asteroid crashes and zombie viruses seem to be two things people are most afraid of lately, so NASA is guilty of bad timing this week with an admission it “doesn’t know about all ...
“Extinction level” asteroid crashes and zombie viruses seem to be two things people are most afraid of lately, so NASA is guilty of bad timing this week with an admission it “doesn’t know about all ...
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