Neutrinos (blue sky map) in front of an artist’s impression of the Milky Way.
Experience IceCube in the immersive new documentary "Messengers." Credit: Director Jeffrey Zablotny and Trapdoor
IceCube meets in Bochum for its spring 2026 collaboration meeting
Earlier this month, more than 200 participants took part in the fall IceCube Collaboration meeting in Bochum, Germany. The meeting was hosted by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. To kick off the meeting, Anna Franckowiak, a professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and cochair of the local organizing committee (LOC), gave welcome remarks, followed…
IceCube real-time search for high-energy neutrino emission from gravitational waves
Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by some of the most violent and energetic astrophysical phenomena, such as black hole and neutron star mergers. During the merger of two black holes or neutron stars, particle acceleration is expected to occur. This can produce a short gamma-ray burst as well as neutrinos,…
Week 23 at the Pole
The moon was out (nice and bright!), and a strong line of auroras crossed the lower sky, together creating a nice composition for a winter sky photo at the Pole. IceCube’s winterovers were busy last week with operations and calibration tasks, but had time to enjoy the outdoors as well…
🥇🚨 Gold alert - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate event at 2026/06/10 20:02:41 UTC. Find out more at: https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/44899.
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Real-Time Alerts
IceCube is a unique telescope that offers an uninterrupted view of almost the full sky and is capable of detecting neutrinos at the highest energies while still being sensitive to much lower energy neutrinos. The dynamic range of the instrument is from GeV to hundreds of TeV and above, with the observation of cosmic neutrinos at energies approaching 10 PeV. Detection of MeV neutrinos is possible provided they are produced in bursts, as is the case for a Galactic supernova explosion.
IceCube real-time alerts trigger on a series of neutrino signatures with a high chance of identifying a neutrino of astrophysical origin, thus pointing to interesting regions of the sky, and notify the international community when an interesting cosmic phenomenon could be observed.
Outreach for people of all ages
IceCube has a long history of outreach activities that range from small group presentations to large collaborative art-science installations. Capitalizing on the appeal of the South Pole detector and building upon established collaborations, IceCube continues to find new ways to introduce IceCube science to an ever broader audience.
