Scientists identify Earth's largest shield volcano, and it's not Mauna Loa Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

Mariner 9, which arrived at Mars in November of 1971, was the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth, and sent back more than 7,000 images the Red Planet.

Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly Lōʻihi Seamount), a submarine Hawaiian volcano located about 20 miles off the south coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i, has erupted at least five times in the last ...

Today, the Axial Seamount is the most well-instrumented underwater volcano in the world. If it blows in 2025 as predicted, scientists will collect a wealth of data that could advance the study of ...

The reason that Fuego is far more deadly than Kilauea is that they are really two different kinds of volcanoes. The Hawaiian volcano is what’s called a shield volcano, where the lava sort of ...

In Hawaiian tradition the fire and volcano goddess Pele is thought to occupy the youngest and most active center of volcanism. Today that is Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii.