2018 has been a great year for science and medicine and we are expecting major development in 2019 as well. We asked a host of experts in the field of science and medicine and they expect to see the following innovations this year.

In the latest developmental reporting, sources confirmed that the Union Cabinet, today, has approved Gaganyaan programme giving a thumbs up to the India's space mission. Accordingly, the government will invest the whopping 10k crore, estimated for the mission.

Scientists say that not more than seven eclipses can take place in one year. In 1982, there were four eclipses, both solar and lunar. And, now in 2019, there will be mix of five events, meaning there will be three different types of solar eclipses and one partial lunar eclipse. Here, in this article we will talk about the date and time of the upcoming eclipses of the Sun and Moon.

Breaking news from NASA space centre confirms that a spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. It is likely that the New Horizons spacecraft will reach the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule soon after the stroke of midnight of the New Year's day.

With a government shutdown threatening to hamper NASA's coverage of the farthest spacecraft flyby in history on New Year's Day, the US space agency has said that the New Horizons social media accounts and NASA TV will continue to operate.

The year 2018 has come across several ups and downs in the field of science. From passing away of renowned scientist Stephen Hawking to Martian dreams and satellite launches in India, the year has been full of twists and turns. It witnessed the beginning for the Indian Space sector in the light of Gaganyaan mission, major satellite launches. To inform, a Chinese researchers claiming gene edited babies also fails to fade from our memory. Here are snippets of top science events of 2018.

Using fish skin to heal burns can be cheaper and less painful than bandages, says a scientist.

It seems that the New Year 2019 will begin with a grand celestial event. The spectacular 'Super Blood Wolf Moon' is expected to excite sky watchers across the globe. A few days are the New Year day the world will witness Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse from January 20 onwards. It is when the moon will be at one of its closest positions on earth. This blood moon event will be followed by three celestial events and each of them will give incredible sight across the winter night sky.

It is likely that the Earth will witness a massive meteor shower in the year 2019. A new calculation by Mark Boslough, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, shows that tree-fall pattern in Siberia is consistent with an asteroid coming from the same area in the sky as the Taurid meteor swarm. The Taurids meteor showers occur twice a year, in late June and late October or early November. Generally Beta Taurid shower takes place in the month of June. They strike during the day, when sunlight washes out the "shooting stars" that are visible during the nighttime meteor shower later in the year.

Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, is melting in winter due to heat from the ocean, recent research says.