The number of satellites in orbit, especially in low-Earth orbit, has massively increased in the last decade. This has ...

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

Satellite coated in ultra-dark 'Vantablack' paint will launch into space next ... is available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough ...

Researchers have developed a new version of the world's blackest material that can be applied using a spray paint gun. Vantablack S-VIS traps 99.8 percent of incoming light and, according to ...

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

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

They've also turned Vantablack into a spray paint that captures 99.8% of light (slightly lower than Vantablack's 99.965%). You can't find it on store shelves, though: The spray paint is currently ...

By coating the exterior in layers of Vantablack VBx2, a super-black spray paint that absorbs over 99 percent of light, the jaw-dropping pavilion gives the illusion of staring into a black hole.

He notes this outperforms Vantablack’s S-Vis spray on product which only achieves 99.8%, as did his previous Black 3.0 paint. Those numbers are impressive, and we’d dearly love to see the new ...

Last year, Surrey NanoSystems developed a spray paint version, Vantablack S-VIS. “If required, objects up to a metre or more in length can be sprayed, providing very great flexibility of ...

The conventional form of Vantablack is made up of a forest of ... so it isn't as simple as applying conventional spray paint. It also isn't particularly wear-resistant, so is recommended mainly ...

"It is, for example, some 17 times less reflective than the super-black paint used for minimizing ... local hardware store and buy a can of Vantablack spray, but that's not how it works.