A team of doctors in the Indian state of Karnataka has found a way to diagnose and treat retinopathy of prematurity, or RoP, using Apple iPhones.

Curtain raiser for the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and maybe the final space shuttle mission ever.

Leonid meteor storm will break over the US, North America and Western Africa on the morning of Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (Indian time). This will emit a bright shower of shooting stars in the atmosphere, which can be observed with the naked eye.

Galactic Suite Space Resort, a company based in Barcelona, Spain, says that it is set to open the first hotel in space in 2012.

Researchers have found fossils of a new type of flying reptiles said to have lived over 160 million years ago.

The India-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 along with two other scientists.

India has successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C14) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SHAR Range) in Andhra Pradesh, carrying as payload the country’s ocean-monitoring satellite named Oceansat-2.

UPDATE: Chandrayaan-1 has found evidence of large quantities of water on the lunar surface, reports have said.

BBC has reported that a new variety of rice, called the Sahbhagi Dhan rice, is being tested in the fields of Eastern Jharkhand. The rice is said to be able to withstand long drought patches.

Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Melbourne, Australia, have discovered a bald-headed Bulbul in the forests of Laos.