In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago ...

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... sensing data and machine learning to map evidence of island farming offers ...

Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island ... is widely known as Easter Island, the loss of any ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... a tiny dot in the middle of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds ...

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior ... a portion of the East Pacific Rise roughly 220 miles (350 km) east of Rapa Nui, which is also known as Easter Island.

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... The team used satellite images to map out rock gardens on the island to better ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.