India's Chandrayaan-I Mission, which was called off just last month owing to a communications failure, has been termed a complete success by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) chairman, G Madhavan Nair.

A vaccine has reduced the chance of HIV infection in humans for the first time, in a breakthrough being hailed by the scientific community.

Australian health authorities approved a vaccine for H1N1 influenza, which will be rolled out across the country from September, Health Minister Nicola Roxon said on Friday.

Researchers in Malaysia have confirmed infections among humans with the Plasmodium knowlesi strain of malaria, which till now was believed to only infect monkeys, in particular the long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques.

NASA scientists Wednesday unveiled the first images taken by a revamped Hubble telescope, providing even crisper pictures of distant stars and galaxies.

The colourful images provide a taste of the Hubble’s new capability after a servicing mission in May that installed new instruments and repaired broken ones that had hampered the world’s most famous telescope.