This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Pūhāhonu means “turtle rising for breath” in Hawaiian. It’s also considered the largest and hottest oceanic shield volcano on Earth. A shield volcano is formed of fluid lava flows. ...

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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 ...

Rising more than twice the height of Mount Everest, Olympus Mons dominates the landscape of Mars and holds the title of the largest volcano in the Solar System. Its massive size and unique structure ...

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 ...

Smoke billows from the mouth of Mt. Shasta like a thunderous cough. Within moments, clear skies turn gray, and the sun vanishes behind thick, shifting layers of volcanic gas and ash. Visitors snap ...

Generally speaking, impact craters turn out circular in shape, hence easily recognizable. There are times though when, depending on a lot of factors, including angle of impact and the topography of ...

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 ...

Mars shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity, including Olympus Mons, a massive shield volcano. Ceres' Ahuna Mons is a cryovolcano, erupting salty water instead of lava. Io, Jupiter's ...

Why magma flowed along a curved pathway during the 2018 eruption of a Galapagos volcano is explained by a new model. There are some large shield volcanoes in the world's oceans where the lava is ...