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

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

Oct. 2's annular solar eclipse saw a small-looking new moon cross the face of the sun to create a perfect circle for about ...

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 ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

also known as Easter Island, where around 1,000 stone moai statues stand. You can see the whole celestial event play out in this incredible composite image. On Wednesday (Oct. 2) a ring of fire ...

The moai was found lying on its side in what was once an underwater volcanic crater lake. Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's ...

A few hundred eclipse chasers flocked to Chile's Rapa Nui to see annularity from the home of the mysterious moai.

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

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.