The 70-foot sunshield onboard the James Webb Space Telescope has been fully deployed, a key milestone in preparing the mission for science operations.

Automotive safety experts and insurers have urged caution over today’s announcement that vehicles fitted with ALKS could be legally defined as self-driving.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing lightweight, compact microchemical and thermal systems for NASA applications.

Features editor The Thames Estuary airport was one of Boris Johnson’s pet projects, but realistically he could only cheerlead and the odds were always stacked against it.

The world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has reported its pre-tax third-quarter profits up 70 per cent on a year earlier at €165m.