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 Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 has been exploring the far side of the Moon for three years, making it the longest lunar surface mission in history. In a paper published today in Science Robotics, the ...

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, ...

The rover's radar peers 1,000 feet (300 meters) below the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A team of scientists ...

China’s Yutu-2 rover has been exploring the lunar surface since 2019 and has traveled where no other wheeled rover dared to: the far side of the Moon. It’s the face of our natural satellite that’s ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this photo of the Chang'e 3 site from 31 miles up on Feb. 17. The Yutu rover's tracks can be followed clockwise around the lander to its current location.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

China’s Yutu-2 rover has been roaming the far side of the Moon since January 2019, covering more than 3,000 feet of the dusty lunar surface. In this previously unexplored terrain, the rover has made ...

The first rover to visit the far side of the moon, China’s Yutu-2, has found stark differences between there and the near side. These include stickier, more supportive soil on the far side and a ...

China’s Yutu-2 rover is digging up the Moon’s dirt, and I am thrilled. “Yutu-2 has yielded information about the subsurface structure of the Moon’s far side and details about the lunar regolith that ...

China has discovered semi-transparent glass balls on the surface of the moon, and they're thought to be the result of ancient asteroid impacts. The glass balls were spotted by China's Yutu-2 lunar ...

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 ...