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Fermi’s Large Area Telescope will perform a continuous, all-sky survey to study a range of astrophysical phenomena, including indirect searches for dark matter.

Illustration of a Fermi spacecraft.

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Reports by groups including Dark Energy Survey and Large Area Telescope scientists may provide new clues about the properties of mysterious dark matter.

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With two SLAC researchers in the lead, an analysis of the enigmatic Fermi bubbles has narrowed down the number of possibilities for their origin...

Image - Artist's representation of Fermi bubbles
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The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s recommendations will set the course for the future of particle physics in the United States.

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Scientists say collisions between dark matter particles might be the cause of a curious excess of gamma-ray light coming from the center of our...

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Scientists studying five years of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the first gamma-ray variable pulsar.

Using an entire galaxy as a lens to look at an object in the far distance, researchers are learning more about powerful jets emitted...

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Editors of the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, have selected their annual Top 10 Science Breakthroughs of...

Image - Artist's illustration of a supernova, with a shockwave spreading out from it.
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SLAC's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) recently hosted many of the top scientists in the field to discuss the most important...

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Home Computers Discover Gamma-ray Pulsars

As volunteers for a project called Einstein@Home, citizen scientists unleashed the unused cycles of their home computers on data from the Large Area Telescope...

Image - The four newly discovered pulsars located on a map of the gamma-ray sky
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SLAC and Stanford physicists played a key role in monitoring and analyzing the brightest gamma ray burst ever measured, and suggest that its never-before-seen...

Image - Collapsing star shooting out jet of gas
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Scientists in SLAC's Integrated Circuits Department reach a new frontier in ultrafast X-ray science with intricately designed signal-processing chips that translate particles of light...

Four ePix100 prototype chips bonded in a test setup. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
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On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope rode a Delta II rocket into low-Earth orbit. After two months...

Photo - The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launches June 11, 2008