Mirrors are often considered to be the hidden secret of design. Often just as powerful as artwork and in some cases a more appealing design option, decorating with mirrors for many homeowners may feel ...

All bathrooms need a mirror. And while you might be tempted to choose a small bathroom mirror for a teeny-tiny space, the experts say quite the opposite. Yes, all the designers we’ve spoken to agree ...

When I first moved into my apartment, I knew I wanted to have a nice, big mirror. My reasoning didn’t have much to do with being able to take full-body mirror selfies (although don’t get me wrong, I ...

aluminized the mirror of the largest single-mirror telescope in North America. Technicians at the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins bolted a vacuum chamber directly over the 6.5-meter (21.5 – foot) ...

The mirror blank for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has been moved a few feet at a time over the past seven years by its creators at the University of Arizona’s Richard Caris Mirror Lab. It is ...

Mirrors start off as melted glass—and big mirrors need an appropriately large oven to cast properly. It takes a full year to cast segments of the mirrors used to build the Giant Magellan Telescope, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — An enormous telescope that could help unlock many of the mysteries of the cosmos is really starting to come together. The third of the seven primary mirrors for the Giant Magellan ...

Buddy Martin works for Steward Observatory, part of the University of Arizona. He receives funding from the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization. The University of Arizona is a partner in the Giant ...

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the agency’s biggest-ever science project is coming together at last. In a gymnasium-sized cleanroom dominated by a laser-guided robotic ...