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

There are hundreds of huge stone statues on Rapa Nui — the so-called Moai. No one has ever conclusively found out why they ...

The moai, carved from volcanic tuff, are threatened by rising sea levels and climate changes worsened by global warming.

What makes this finding so significant is that it confirms what some archaeologists and anthropologists have suspected for ...

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering ... including in the construction of the iconic Moai statues. Join the Irish Independent ...

People watch an annular solar eclipse in Puerto San Julian, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) ...

Today's "ring of fire" solar eclipse will be seen by 175,000. On August 2, 2027, 89 million will see the longest total solar ...

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.

The “ring of fire” eclipse of 2024 was a spectacular celestial event — and Dave Eicher saw it from an equally spectacular ...

Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean 3,700km from the coast of Chile, is best known for the enigmatic "moai" stone statues of humans carved by the Rapanui people. A widespread theory ...

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

A few privileged skywatchers gathered on Chile's Easter Island on Wednesday to prepare to observe a solar eclipse. Visitors to the island in the South Pacific will witness the 'ring of fire' created ...