China aims for 2018 landing on far side of the moon

A photograph taken on a giant screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing shows an animated image of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe landing onto the surface of the moon,

China aims to continue ramping up its space exploration efforts by landing the first lunar probe on the far side of the moon -- the hemisphere that faces away from Earth -- in 2018, the Xinhua news agency reports.
The far side of the moon has never been explored, making plans for the Chang'e-4 probe quite the milestone, said Liu Jizhong, chief to the country's State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense's lunar exploration center. China had previously set a goal of landing a probe there by the year 2020.

Destructive Extreme Turbulance in Galaxy W2246-0526 is devouring galatic rub

In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs up gas across its entire galaxy.

Most glowing galaxy in the universe is going through a devastating destruction

Extreme turbulence in galaxy W2246-0526, also termed as the ‘most luminous galaxy’, could eject almost all the star-forming gas in it astronomers have noted. Galaxy W2246-0526 is 12.4 billion light years away and the data was analyzed from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Tanio Díaz-Santos of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile informed that the galaxy is so turbulent that it is ripping itself apart.

SpaceX to land rocket on drone barge. Is that a big deal?

SpaceX will attempt to land a rocket on a drone barge for the third time. Following the historic success of the rocket company's successful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket on land, expectations are high for Sunday's water attempt.

SpaceX will make a third attempt to safely land a rocket on a drone ship Sunday.
SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by CEO Elon Musk, made history in December after successfully landing a Falcon 9 rocket stage on land. The company will attempt to replicate the landing again Sunday, but this time at sea using a drone barge as a moveable platform.

SpaceX has tried to land a rocket on an ocean-going vessel previously, in January and April of last year, but both landings resulted in damage to the rocket. The rocket company views the ability to land at sea as vital to its reusable rocket business model.