Background Noise
Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results, including an early finding about a phenomenon the...
Category : Space and Atmospheric Physics
Heavyweight Discovery
Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet, tipping the scales at the equivalent of 800...
Ghost particles give scientists first look inside an active galaxy
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected about 80 high-energy neutrinos emitted by a single active galaxy over the course of ten years....
Cool Deal
The National Science Foundation has signed a five-year, $34.5-million agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to operate the unique IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a one-of-a-kind telescope...
Stringing It Together
On Dec. 18, 2010, there was an air of reluctance in the IceCube drill tower, even as the anticipation and excitement built. This was the...
Inflation at South Pole
The theory of inflation holds that just a fraction of a second after the universe exploded into existence, it expanded exponentially. The search for the...
Fixed on the Future
The South Pole Telescope is a bold experiment that has already made some big discoveries. But the latest feat involving the project is one researchers...
50 Years and Counting
The McMurdo Station Cosmic Ray Observatory first started counting the charged subatomic particles that bombard the Earth in 1960. Fifty years later, the U.S. Antarctic...
Dust in the Wind
The balloon-borne Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory carries the world’s most complicated high-frequency radios, but it doesn’t tune into your favorite rock station. Instead, it will pick...
Mission Complete
Its five-year mission: To survey the early universe for massive galaxy clusters, a search designed to understand more about one of cosmology’s greatest mysteries, dark...
