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", ...