Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

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

Native American DNA in the genomes dates to roughly when Rapa Nui was settled. AI analysis of satellite imagery data is a new ...

The tree that goes by toromiro has been a fragile expat for more than a half-century. Little Sophora toromiro, is far from home, no longer present on Rapa Nui, the Pacific island where it evolved.

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

Rapa Therapeutics (Rapa) is bringing the power of epigenetically reprogrammed T cells to the treatment of solid tumors. Building on almost 20 years of work at the United States National Institutes ...

The "ring of fire" will be visible in parts of South America, specifically over the remote island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as well as in sections of Argentina and Chile. The path of the eclipse ...

Hoa Hakananai'a was removed from Rapa Nui in the 19th Century Prominent among the eclectic hoard of treasures in London's British Museum is the imposing figure of Hoa Hakananai'a, a four-tonne ...

That includes one iconic remote destination—Easter Island/Rapa Nui, famous for its 1,000 mysterious moai monoliths—and wilderness beauty spots in Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia. However ...

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Police in Waikato have responded to protesters at a building on Te Rapa Road, Horotiu Hamilton at about 7am this morning. The ...