It doesn't get much darker than Vantablack, a special coating material that'll make you think you're staring into the heart of a black hole. Now it's available to coat all sorts of things. Amanda ...

Reflective satellites are getting in the way of stargazing. (Joshua Rozells) Low Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded ...

Invented by scientists in the UK in 2014, Vantablack was nicknamed the darkest material ever produced. It has the power to absorb 99.96 percent of light in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared ...

But until now, Vantablack’s nonscientific uses have been just that: buzzy, one-off projects that have generated short-lived bursts of noise and media fascination, but not much else. That’s largely ...