Scientists have identified the world’s largest shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, which is barely visible above the waters of the Pacific. The volcano, Pūhāhonu, is located in the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Mauna ...

Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth, travelled to Mars and returned images of the surface, including this one of a Martian shield volcano. The craft’s wide-angle and ...

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The world's biggest and hottest shield volcano has been identified in Hawaii, with researchers discovering Pūhāhonu is twice as big as the previous record holder, Mauna Loa. A shield volcano is a type ...

The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano, thought to be dormant since almost the last ice age, has erupted, and the volcanic plume is reaching heights at which intercontinental aircraft fly. Hayli Gubbi is ...

Mauna Loa in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island is once again Earth’s largest shield volcano. “Nature Geoscience has a really good press department,” Sager said. “The hook was that ...

This MCC image, taken on September 03, 2015 at an altitude of 6144 km with a resolution of 320 m, shows an intermediate sized shield volcano known as Tharsis Tholus. It is located in the eastern ...

Researchers revealed the largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth. A team of volcanologists and ocean explorers used several lines of evidence to determine which volcano holds that distinction. In ...

Despite Hawaii's volcano erupting continuously for a month, Guatemala's recent volcano eruption was much more deadly, with death tolls reaching 69 and growing. What is it about the two volcanoes that ...

The situation is "rapidly evolving," the Volcanoes National Park said. Kilauea, an active shield volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, has erupted. The Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park confirmed the news on ...

The volcano, called Axial Seamount, is more than 3,600-feet-tall and sits half a mile underwater just 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. Experts made the prediction on December 10 after detecting ...