IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, Credit: Wikipedia The short version: In 2026, Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in Physics for helping build IceCube, a detector made of a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice that catches particles from deep space. IceCube is the work of more than 400 scientists in 14 countries. Halzen is the one who pushed the idea for decades, and the Nobel committee credited his vision and leadership. A hundred-year-old mystery Victor Hess and his balloon,...

ARC participant's Chasing horizons at Pangong Lake. Ladakh, often called the "Rooftop of the World," has quietly become India's top spot for stargazing and astrophotography. Perched high in the Himalayas, this cold desert region offers a combination of altitude, dry air, and near-zero light pollution that you simply won't find anywhere else in the country. If you've been searching for the best place in India to photograph the Milky Way or just lie back and watch a truly dark sky, Ladakh...

A meteor leaves a bright trail across the night sky in this 30-second exposure captured during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers on Aug. 3, 2025, at Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Credit: NASA Have you ever lain back under a night sky and watched a streak of light race across the darkness, gone before you could even point at it? That fleeting thrill is one of the simplest joys astronomy has to offer, and few events deliver it as reliably as the Perseid Meteor Shower. Every...