Researchers discovered a hidden island near Rio Grande. The island has abundant rare earth elements. This finding could ...

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate ... the scientists linked the 1831 eruption to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean, they reported ...

but its exact landing site remains unknown due to conflicting reports. Kosmos 482 performed an uncontrolled reentry on Saturday, May 10, plunging through Earth’s atmosphere around 2:24 a.m. ET ...

The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like a “conveyor belt."... Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 on a failed mission to Venus is believed to have crashed back to Earth early on Saturday morning. The European Space Agency, which was monitoring the craft’s ...

And yet, despite being the most remote inhabited island on Earth, tourism has boomed, going from 22,000 tourists in 2003 to 100,000 in 2024. And that number will likely continue to increase.