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" — ...

When you set out to build the "ultimate escape pod," you can't stop at its first iteration of it, no matter how amazing it is or how well it's received. That seems to be the reasoning with Stockman, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. snaking rover tracks in the gray dirt of the moon. A team of scientists have put together an image of the layers beneath the ...

China's lunar rover takes a peek back at its distant lander companion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's Yutu 2 rover has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since January, China’s Chang’e-4 mission – an orbiter and a rover – has been exploring the far side of the Moon, particularly the prized South Pole-Aitken Basin, an asteroid impact crater that ...

Yutu 2, whose name means "Jade Rabbit 2," is a star once more as China celebrates the start of the Year of the Rabbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.