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" — ...

The rover Yutu-2, imaged by the Chang’e-4 mission lander, January 2019. Credit: China Lunar Exploration Program/China National Space Administration. HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ...

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.

China's Yutu 2 rover has spotted a mysterious object described as a "hut" or "house" on the far side of the moon, according to a recent log of the lunar rover's activities. Yutu 2 encountered the cube ...

China's Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, spotted a distant cube-shaped object last month. China's space agency dubbed the object "mysterious hut." Others called it "moon cube." The rover got ...

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, ...

An image has tantalized the internet: an enigmatic cube-shaped object on the far side of the Moon. But “strange cube” conjures up a few images: an alien Starbucks. A secret Russian Moonbase. Gene ...

What does it take to end a nearly four-decade pause in lunar soft landings? In December 2013, China answered with precision engineering, myth-inspired symbolism and a rover named after a rabbit. A ...

Although it turned out China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover did not discover an alien monolith on the Moon, but rather a small boulder that appeared bizarrely square from a distance, the lunar robot has still ...