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Small businesses (SMBs) are now in a Darwinian struggle for survival. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is completely disrupting and reconfiguring the market, with some SMBs adapting and others calling it quits. This will have big implications for marketing and advertising as well. In its Q2 economic report, Yelp …

Chicxulub Asteroid Caused End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction, New Study Confirms The end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago eradicated roughly 75% of the animal and plant species on Earth, including whole groups like non-avian dinosaurs and ammonites. Debate lingers over what caused this extinction, with intense volcanic activity in India’s Deccan …

Astronomers Give Asteroid Moon a New Name Before NASA Hits It With a Spacecraft We’d be out of luck if a killer asteroid had Earth in its crosshairs today, but NASA and the ESA are preparing for the first test of technology that could one day save the planet. The …

While you were sleeping last night, an asteroid passed close to Earth—very close. The object is known only as 2017 BH30, and it passed within 40,563 miles of the planet. That’s closer than the orbit of the moon, which is 238,000 miles away. The troubling part here is that astronomers …

At a time when terrestrial plant life was just beginning to take hold here on Earth some 466 million years ago, a massive asteroid collision happened someplace nearby. We don’t know much about the nature of the original objects that collided, except that one of them was about the size …

NASA is preparing for a pair of new asteroid-exploration missions, which will launch in the early 2020s. These missions are part of the Discovery Program, which seeks to investigate remnants of the early solar system in a somewhat low-cost way. Past Discovery missions include Mars Pathfinder, Stardust, and Dawn. The …