The Nobel for IceCube and the search for neutrinos from outer space

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has won Francis Halzen the Nobel Prize for physics by opening a window into parts of the universe that were until recently beyond our reachThe story so far: Belgian-born U.S. physicist Francis Halzen has received the physics Nobel Prize for 2026 for helping build the IceCube observatory in Antarctica — a telescope that has no mirrors or lenses and doesn’t even point at the stars.