Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape ...

Deep within the Yellowstone Caldera, the bowl-shaped rock cauldron at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, there’s a clue ...

The giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park is cooling off in the west but staying hot in the northeast.

Fossil record tells us the super volcano burps every 700,000 years, give or take millennia. Be careful to keep track of this ...

Yellowstone's geothermal wonders hide an active volcanic system. Recent studies suggest the northeastern magma body could ...

In the past 2 million years, Yellowstone has undergone three huge, caldera-forming eruptions – those that create the cauldron-like basins on Earth's surface when a subterranean magma chamber ...

The study, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, adds information to the constant speculation about when the Yellowstone caldera could once again erupt. The newly clarified picture ...

Previous studies of Yellowstone had used the passage of earthquake waves through the caldera to try to gauge where liquid magma versus solid rock sat beneath the park. But waves can change their ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist ...

Scientists investigating the Yellowstone supervolcano have discovered movement deep in the crater, sparking fears the sleeping giant could erupt. The volcano, located under Yellowstone National ...

Languages: English. Despite widespread fears of a catastrophic "supervolcano" eruption, scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) have suggested that any eruptive event there would ...