The moon was slowly cooling down and running out of steam in its later volcanic stage. Its energy became weak over time.” ...

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.

When China's Chang'e-4 mission reaches the lunar surface in December 2018, it will become the first mission to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon. The combination lander-rover will ...

China launched its Chang'e 4 mission to the far side of the moon on Dec. 8, 2018 Beijing Time (Dec. 7 EST/GMT). China is the first country ever to send a rover to soft-land on the lunar farside.

China’s Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter turned to photograph Chang’e-4, a bright dot on the ...

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

The uncrewed Chang'e-4 lander and rover successfully arrived in the Von Karman crater, which is within the South Pole-Aitken Basin, at 10:26 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday, according to Chinese ...

The lander Chang’e 4 and rover Yutu 2 follow from Chang’e 3 and the original Yutu rover that were deployed on the moon’s near side in 2013. But if you’ve been looking closely at the ...

HELSINKI, Finland — China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon Jan. 2 in a mission investigating the history of the solar system and paving the ...

Chang'e 6 built off the accomplishments of two previous Chinese missions: Chang'e 4, which soft-landed on the far side of the moon and used a rover to explore the surface, and Chang'e 5 ...

The country’s Chang’e 4 lander touched down on the far side of the Moon in early January, and while it’s been a long time since NASA sent anything to the lunar surface, the U.S. space agency ...