HANGA ROA, Easter Island >> Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an ...

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

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.

Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, ...

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

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 ...

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

Solar Eclipse Shines a 'Ring of Fire' Over Easter Island and Patagonia HANGA ROA, Easter Island/LAS HORQUETAS, Argentina ...

Chile's Easter Island is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to data from authorities, the island receives around 50 times more plastic and microplastic than the coasts of Chile. Fiona ...

The Oct. 2 partial solar eclipse, known as an annular or "ring of fire" eclipse, is about to begin over Easter Island and ...

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

See the annular “ring of fire” and partial solar eclipse captured by photographers in some of Earth's most remote and iconic ...