Pure Land Buddhism emerged as a major Mahayana tradition focused on devotion to Amitābha Buddha. Instead of relying solely on personal effort, followers seek rebirth in the Pure Land through faith and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated ...

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin ...

The lithium problem poses challenges to BBN models, sparking research into cosmic processes and enhancing our grasp of ...

President Droupadi Murmu presented the Vijyan Ratna Puraskar posthumously to astrophysicist Jayant Naralikar. The Rashtriya ...

In August 2026, a select group of scholars, artists, students, and community thinkers will gather on the African continent for an immersive, 14-day group learning experience designed to reconnect part ...

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.

the universe works without the aid of gods (or God), that religious fear (dreading hell) is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is ...

Archaeologists say they have found scientific proof that humans created a ring of deep pits near Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago. The pits at ...

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of ...