All important Science and Tech Current Affairs January 2018 to December 2018

In this article, we have updated all-important Science and Tech Current Affairs in 2018 between January 2018 to December 2018 on monthly basis. The events are compiled from newspapers (The Hindu, TOI, IE & ET), magazines, and various online resources.

December 2018

Six new antibodies developed
NASA probe to reach asteroid Bennu
Osiris-Rex arrives at Bennu
Biggest US ‘rideshare’ mission
India’s heaviest communication satellite launched
Four new gravitational waves detected
First ever womb transplant from dead donor
Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ auctioned
Probe to explore dark side of Moon
‘Sun in a box’ system
New method to predict solar storms
Evidence of water discovered on Bennu
Voyager 2 reached
Virgin Galactic reaches space for first time
Juno set to reach on Jupiter
Gsat-7A successful
Most-distant object ever discovered
Evidence of water discovered in 17 asteroids
Most influential teens of 2018
China’s first satellite for broadband
Agni-IV test-fired successfully
Adolescent star discovered
SpaceX deploys GPS satellite into orbit
Scientists ‘sew’ with just sound waves
GM plants can remove cancer-causing pollutants
Gaganyaan approved

November 2018

Solar eruptions may not be slinky shaped
Dawn mission ends
High exposure to RFR
Indian, US satellites find black hole
India’s first LC payment via blockchain
NASA conducts quiet sonic boom tests
Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
World’s largest brain-like supercomputer switched on
Cyclonic storm ‘Gaja’
Global proposals on Venus mission
ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover’s landing spot revealed
India to launch GSAT-29
Ice Age asteroid crater discovered
SpaceX to launch 1st satellite from India
GSAT-29 placed in orbit
SpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites
Kepler put to rest
Definition of kilogram changed
NASA selects landing site
Rare gamma-ray burst
ISS microbes
Smart vaccine for goat plague
New method to remove mercury from water
TRAPPIST-1 system
First-ever study on cannabis
World’s first genetically edited babies
CubeSat success paves way for smaller space probes
ISRO to launch HysIS satellite

October 2018

‘Martian dirt’ may unveil how to grow space food
Parker completes first Venus flyby
First evidence of Moon outside solar system
Night trial of Prithvi-II
Voyager 2 nearing interstellar space
SpaceX successfully lands rocket
GSLV MK-III cryo engine tested
Spacecraft send to Mercury
China to launch artificial moon
Flesh-eating fish identified
World’s largest amphibious plane
New ceramic composite material for solar energy
3D printing for artificial blood vessels
New gamma-ray constellations named
Parker records images of Earth
First indigenously Sukhoi-30 MKI
CSIR develops Less Polluting Firecrackers
Hubble space telescope returns
Signs of supermassive black hole mergers found

September 2018

Solar eruptions may not be slinky shaped
The new method to forecast geo storms developed
Water worlds could support life
AI-based system help predict the earthquake
Third FOXSI mission
India And France To Collaborate On Human Space Mission ‘Gaganyaan’
IAF ready for space challenge
5G networks may be in place by 2020
India’s DRDO Test Fires Indigenous Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile
Surface to surface short-range missile Prahaar test fired successfully
NASA balloon mission to improve weather forecasting
India conducts successful interceptor missile test
Blockchain technology to track drug supply chain in India

August 2018

Bacteria too can become extinct
Move Hack launched
Supersonic interceptor missile successfully test fired
Naval version of Tejas tests
First manned US space launch since 2011
SKA’s ‘nervous system’
NASA’s Curiosity rover anniversary
Most lithium-rich giant star discovered
Gender gap in Internet
Partial Solar Eclipse on 11 August 2018
Parker launch delayed
New patented Clot buster
First mission to touch the Sun
Lander to be named ‘Vikram’
Humanoid robots introduced
A Study by robotic floats
SAAW Successful Tested
Test of ATGM ‘HELINA’
India’s future astronauts’ training centre
Presence of ice on Moon
InSight spacecraft crosses halfway mark to Mars
Laser satellite to study Earth’s changing ice
First images captured of asteroid Bennu
Spitzer telescope completes 15 years in space

July 2018

Aadhaar VID now operational
GNFC, NITI Aayog join hands on Blockchain
India’s most potent missile
Century’s longest total lunar eclipse to be seen
Earth’s first animals caused global warming
AI robot reaches the space station
First biofortified sorghum.
Flight tests for Crew Escape System
First confirmed the image of the planet being formed
Bacteria-powered solar cell
Cheetah 3 robot
A rare celestial event
Gravity theory passes the extreme test
‘Sausage’ galaxy reshaped Milky Way
Kepler Telescope almost out of fuel
Net neutrality recommendations approved
India’s first internet calling
Heat-resistant film for ISRO space missions
Ghost Particle origin traced
Vikas Engine successfully tested
Volcano spots on moon Io
BrahMos successfully tested
China to launch satellites for low-orbit communications
‘Scientific validation’ to Ayurveda
New ‘Meghalayan age’ discovered
Trai report on download speed
The magnetised wire can detect cancer early
Data Transfer Project
Satellite to search missing matter
Park Nanoscience Lab
Parachutes for Orion spacecraft
TESS begins operations

June 2018

Gravitational wave signalled the birth of the black hole
Successfully test-fires Agni-5
New material help to regenerate enamel
India in e-waste generation
New clues of life found on Mars
An effective tool to check IP abuse
World’s first psychopath AI
India in the league of Exoplanet
NASA flies unmanned aircraft
Pinaka turns into the guided missile
Found ‘functional cure’ for HIV
World’s most powerful supercomputer unveiled
Supermassive blackhole Spotted
India’s largest national data centre to come up
Indian scientists discover ‘sub-Saturn planet
First satellite to collect space junk
World’s smallest computer

May 2018

New materials for sustainable developed
New water-based battery
Insight spacecraft launched
BrahMos to attain 76% localisation
New antibodies for Ebola vaccine
Scientists decode the Sun’s death
New magnetic process in space
SpaceX postpones first commercial launch
Nanofertilisers for enhancing zinc
Google updates Privacy Policy ahead of GDPR
LISA can detect binaries from Milky Way’s globular clusters
New evidence of water plumes on Europa
Bitcoin to use 0.5% of world’s electricity by year-end
First stars formed 250 million years after Big Bang
Centre unveils e SIM norms
First ever Railways to use AI
AI in armed forces
Successfully test-fires BrahMos missile
Nipah virus infection
Brahmos test-fired for 2nd day
Astrosat accomplishes X-ray polarisation
Twin NASA water cycle tracker satellites
The Union reports
Cloud-enabled Data Centre
India among most targeted for phishing
New element with magnetic properties
AI can detect skin cancer
Velocity MR Study on Aadhar

April 2018

Satellites for Iridium launched
Contact with GSAT-6A satellite lost
Aadhaar gets Virtual ID
Test launch of Mars landing parachute
India bans antibody detection test kits
Mission Micro-11
Parker Solar Probe
INRSS-1I put into orbit
Final orbit raising of IRNSS-1I
DARPAN-PLI App launched
World’s largest superconducting camera

March 2018

Successful Test of NAG
Super-Earth exoplanets
NASA reveals future missions to Moon
Search for interstellar water
AI-powered ‘Watson Assistant
Brahmos Test fired successfully
Govt starts creating IST
Hot Earth-sized exoplanet spoted
GSAT-6A in orbit
SIH-2018

February 2018

Sanskrit name for Airbus
Agni-I successfully test-fires
New alien species invasions rising globally
Mid-course missile interceptor.
Graphene radiation detector
In major breakthrough in retinal neurons
Juno probe completes orbit of Jupiter
App to monitor fly ash launched
Astrosat accomplishes X-ray polarisation
Neptune’s mysterious shrinking storm
Asteroid ‘time capsules
Agni-II missile test fired.
Night trial
World’s first state-backed digital currency
India 7th most targeted nation
SARAS test flown successfully
‘Ultramassive’ black holes discovered
Next generation technology loop to generate clean energy
‘Dhanush’ missile successfully test-fired
SpaceX launches imaging satellite
5G trial in India successfully
Rustom-2 test successfully
CSIR signs MoU with IORA
Water distributed across lunar surface
Clues to alien life on Mars

January 2018

First time microbes in space
Eco-friendly method for raw biomass
First Blue Moon in 150 years
India’s first multi-petaflops supercomputer
Scientists trace origins of early life
Zuma spacecraft launched
The man who decoded our DNA
New catalyst can create fuels from shale gas
India to launch its 100th satellite.
UIDAI introduces ‘Virtual ID’
Multiple-burn tech.
PSLV-C40 successfully places 31 satellites
Stem cells convert to nerve cells
Five new exoplanets
UIDAI to introduce facial authentication
Cartosat-2 becomes operational
Maharashtra unveils public cloud policy
World’s biggest flooded cave.
India successfully test-fires Agni
Indigenous malaria vaccine failed
Commercialise use of ISRO’s lithium-ion battery
Last satellite launched by a foreign rocket
Super blue moon to reveal evolution of moon’s surface
New cyber security business
Scientists clone monkeys
GOLD mission continues.
UIDAI allows face recognition
Karanj launched