China's Chang'e 4 moon rover has been snapping new images highlighting the spacecraft's travels and discoveries on the lunar far side. The Chang'e 4 mission, which consists of a lander and a rover ...

China's Chang'e 4 rover, named Yutu 2, rolled onto the floor of the moon's Von Kármán Crater today (Jan. 3), about 12 hours after the mission pulled off history's first-ever soft touchdown on ...

China's First and Only Moon Rover, Yutu, is Officially Dead. Published: 4 Aug 2016, 18:42 UTC • By: Alex Oagana. 7 photos. Photo: Japan Times. Remember the cute little lunar rover that was ...

China's Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.

Separation begins about 3 1/2 minutes in. Credit: CCTV China's moon mission is the first by any country since the Soviet Union's Lunar 24 sample-return mission in 1976.

China's mysterious "moon cube" is a mystery no longer. The big reveal: It's a rock that's not even shaped like a cube. The nation's Yutu-2 rover discovered the object — which appeared to be a ...

Yutu rover emblazoned with Chinese flag as seen by the Chang’e-3 lander on the Moon on December 15, 2013. Notice the rover tire tracks left behind in the loose lunar topsoil. China Space ...

China’s brand new moon rover is already saying farewell. The diminutive lunar explorer, known as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about halfway through a three-month mission to study ...

China's Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.

The Yutu-2 rover found the terrain to be relatively flat and free of rocks compared with areas on the side of the Moon facing Earth, such as the Mare Imbrium explored by the first Yutu rover from ...