Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into ...

As private companies launch vast networks of satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), the astronomical community faces an ...

Along with our incredible astronomical developments comes brand new responsibilities as well. Now, we not only have to think ...

Surrey NanoSystems, Vantablack's creator, announced that it's tackling the reflectivity of satellites that threatens ...

Vantablack 310 is one of the darkest paints ever, and it could be the key to eliminating light pollution caused by satellites ...

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to ...

When Vantablack 310 is applied to a surface, it reflects only 2% of incoming light, meaning it absorbs the remaining 98%.

Here’s how it works. Though it may look like a 2D cartoon wormhole, "Vantablack" is the blackest material known to science. Vantablack was first created by researchers in 2014, and was found to ...

A building described as the “darkest on Earth” has been unveiled at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in South Korea. It’s the work of British architect Asif Khan, who achieved the super ...

Different light frequencies translate into different colors. Vantablack isn't a color, but a material. It’s made of a “forest” of tiny, hollow carbon tubes, each the width of a single atom.

Tons of melanin alone, though, couldn’t make these fish rival the darkness of Vantablack. When you shine a light on a fangtooth or its peers, the melanosomes absorb most of the photons right away.

Vantablack, first announced in 2014, is a rare real-life special effect, a coating so black that it sucks in almost every photon that hits it. It makes any three-dimensional object basically look ...