Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a remote island off the coast of Chile. As of 2023, its population ...

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

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. A "ring of fire ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

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

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by Cuban, Colombian and Utrecht geologists among others, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave quite differently. Easter Island consists ...

Now, a study by geologists from Cuba, Colombia, and the Netherlands is challenging that long-held view. Easter Island, known for its extinct volcanoes, was formed around 2.5 million years ago. In 2019 ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...

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 ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are ...