China's Yutu 2 rover is still operating after four years on the moon and has returned new images from the lunar far side. There have been few updates on Yutu 2 — whose name means "Jade Rabbit 2" — ...

A team of scientists have put together an image of the layers beneath the surface of the far side of the moon using data from China's Yutu 2 rover. The Chang'e 4 lander and rover touched down on the ...

The Chang'e-4 mission's Yutu-2Rover is still active on the lunar surface. The Chang'e-4 mission landed on the moon in 2019.

Earlier today I wrote that the Yutu rover had expired after a malfunction occurred during the storage of one of its solar panels prior to hibernation about two weeks ago. Well, guess what? Turns out, ...

China's Chang'e-4 lander made history when it completed the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon in January 2019. Now, the team has spotted some very unusual rocks. Share on Facebook ...

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I'm getting a little of that old Apollo feeling all over again watching the Chinese rover Yutu carefully "step" down the lander ramp and roll onto the moon's surface. The crew at the Beijing Aerospace ...

CAST already has the Yutu-2 rover on the far side of the moon, which landed in 2019 as part of the Chang'e 4 mission — the first mission to successfully land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.

The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) is the largest and deepest basin on the Moon, theoretically opening a window into the lunar lower crust and likely into the upper mantle. However, compositional information ...

Just a few days ago, China reported that its lunar rover, Yutu -- named after the mythological Chinese jade rabbit that lives on the Moon -- went gentle into that good night. Now, just a handful of ...

A team of researchers has found evidence suggesting that the regolith material on which the Chinese rover Yutu-2 is situated consists mainly of material that was thrown there when an asteroid struck ...