  The ALICE experiment is devoted to the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP)
created in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The experimental setup allows
for the study of many different observables that contributed to the
characterization of the properties of the QGP. The ALICE experiment went
through a major upgrade during LS2 to profit from the increased LHC luminosity
and to improve the tracking r esolution. An additional upgrade is planned for
LS3. A new experiment, ALICE 3, was proposed as next major upgrade in LS4. In
this contribution, a selection of recent physics results was presented together
with a glimpse of the next upgrades during LS3 and LS4, with the main focus on
ALICE 3 and its physics program.
