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
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