A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

One of the most sought-after locations for the eclipse was remote Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it's called by residents, ...

STORY: Easter Island is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic waste... mostly from elsewhere.The Chilean island receives ...

AI analysis of satellite imagery data is a new method for estimating population size. Bayesian model-based analysis points to ...

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The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an ...

Hear from the eclipse chasers who travel anywhere to witness unique solar events, forming a global community. Last week it was Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.