According to a HowStuffWorks documentary on Yellowstone, while the volcano has remained dormant for roughly 640,000 years, scientists continue to monitor it for signs of renewed activity.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa. Thankfully, Yellowstone has never ...

Mike Poland, of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said “the feature itself is new. That there would be a new feature is, you know, mundane,” he told The Associated Press. “The noteworthy ...

Entombed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, teeth from the rhino fossils were analyzed by researchers at the ...

Scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory shared in a blog post that the new vent is located at Roadside Springs, an area in Yellowstone National Park that’s south of Mammoth Hot ...

“It’s fun (but) not particularly unusual,” Mike Poland, the scientists in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said at the time. “Yellowstone geysers do this all the time.” ...

It was coming from a new thermal vent, according to a recent blog post by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano Observatory announcing the discovery. The ranger notified park ...