Researchers have discovered one of the blackest materials on Earth – material that reflects less than .5 percent of the light that hits it – on the skin of deep-sea fish that use their ...

With an ability to soak up 99.96 percent of the light that hits it, the material known as Vantablack has earned plenty of attention as the world’s blackest material, with scientists testing it ...

California researchers have announced a major breakthrough in bleak: They've invented the blackest paint in the world, and it just might save us all. Because of its unrivaled ability to absorb ...

It is one of the blackest materials on Earth – but it can transform light into any colour you want. Simple to make, this chameleon material could one day boost solar power. The world record for ...

Researchers have created the blackest black ever made on Earth, by bubbling a shiny metal plate in nitric acid for a few seconds. This new super-black coating produced by Richard Brown and his ...

Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa has about twice the volume of Earth's liquid water. Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, may have the largest ocean in the solar system. Earth seems drenched ...