An astrophotographer who visited Easter Island for the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024, shared a stunning view of the ...

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

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

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

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

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

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 ...

Easter Island is drowning in plastic waste, with about 50 times more plastic washing up on its shores than mainland Chile, due to its location in the South Pacific Gyre. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo ...

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

A few hundred eclipse chasers flocked to Chile's Rapa Nui to see annularity from the home of the mysterious moai. RAPA NUI (EASTER ISLAND), Chile — Eclipse-chasers from across the globe gathered ...

By Rathindra Kuruwita If Udaya Gammanpila had access to documents on the Easter Sunday attacks that the current ...