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URGENT: China launches country's first dark matter satellite

Xinhua, December 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

China on Thursday sent into space the country's first Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of the invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe's mass. Endi