Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a small island located in the southeast Pacific Ocean. It is most famous for nearly ...

On Oct. 2, a partial "ring of fire" solar eclipse was visible from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island ...

Editor Dave Eicher poses on Easter Island in front of a long row of Moai statues, the ancient relics of this special place. Credit: David J. Eicher The first spectacle of the day came in viewing a ...

Monolithic human figures called moai carved by Easter Island inhabitants (UCSB) The Rapa Nui island is located in the Pacific over 1,900km east of the closest inhabited Polynesian island and about ...

A NEW study has shed light on a 400-year-old indigenous tribe on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. It was previously believed that the indigenous population on Easter Island had collapsed ...

The world's most remote island, where moai stand and stare at the stars, will experience an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. For one eclipse-chaser, it's unmissable.

There's something liberating about hopping into a tiny rental car and charting your own course, especially in a place as remote as Easter Island. With its pastoral scenery, towering moai statues, and ...

A few privileged skywatchers gathered on Chile's Easter ... to the island in the South Pacific will witness the 'ring of fire' created by the eclipse, escorted by the ancient moai sculptures.

New studies have cast doubt on the widely held belief that Easter Island’s ... debated the riddles of the island, known for its huge stone statues called “moai” but also the theory that ...

Stone statues in a fire-damaged area of Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile, October 6, 2022. RAPANUI MUNICIPALITY SHOWS MOAIS/ AFP "Here are my moai!" Vaihere Tuki Haoa walked toward a ...

Easter Island is known for its huge stone statues called ‘moai’ David Madison/Getty Images His writings, which have also explored demographic and ecological collapses from Viking settlers in ...