Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

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Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ... Combination of Cosmic ...

“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...

India has always been a great nation contributing to the global understanding of the universe from the time of the Vedas to ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. By Katrina Miller The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights ...

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