Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most extreme topographical features within our solar system. Its ...

When a volcano erupts there can be lava, ash, steam or gaseous emissions. Sometimes eruptions are explosive and lava is thrown out as volcanic bombs. Hotspots are places where the magma rises up ...

But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt. St. Helens-type eruptions. Instead, it emits a steady stream of fluid lava that generally flows gently down the side of the mountain ...

Located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean, the underwater shield volcano last erupted in 2015, following previous eruptions in 1998 and 2011. The volcano, first detected in the 1970s ...

Poland described the volcano as "fascinating " but reassured that it "doesn't really pose a hazard". The Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, similar to Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the world's most active ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield ... features. Today, the Axial Seamount is the most well-instrumented underwater volcano ...

Situated along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a chain of undersea volcanoes extending between Oregon and Alaska, Axial Seamount is a young shield volcano - a broader volcano with a low profile.