China's lunar rover Yutu 2 is still active on the far side of the moon nearly six years after its historic touchdown. The Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2, or Jade Rabbit 2, has completed 71 lunar days of ...

The Chang'e 3 moon lander and Yutu rover got their way up call this weekend. Roused from hibernation after more than two weeks chilling in the long lunar night, they're back in business taking ...

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 ...

The Chinese space push is in full swing, but the CNSA (Chinese NASA) is nowhere near ready to compete in terms of PR. When Chang'e 3 -- China's first lunar rover -- rolled from its lander this week, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...