Thankfully, Yellowstone or any supervolcano of its size has never erupted within recorded human history. But now, artificial intelligence ( AI ) reveals exactly what that would look like.

Obsidian Cliff is the result of thick, rhyolite lava flows from the last caldera eruption 180,000 years ago. Image credit: USGS/S.R. Brantley A popular subject among doomsayers, the Yellowstone ...

Henry Wood Elliott was a dedicated conservationist and explorer who, in 1871, helped create the first bathymetric map of Yellowstone Lake. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, he declined to ...

Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...

At the Yellowstone supervolcano, the magma reservoir under the caldera at Yellowstone National Park holds a lot more melt than scientists previously thought.

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from R. Greg Vaughan, research ...

YELLOWSTONE scientists discovered the magma pocket hiding below Yellowstone National Park is more than double the size they originally thought, according to statistics.

The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles .

This method allowed the researchers to create high-resolution maps to a depth of between 492 and 2,296 feet (150 to 700 m) and low-resolution maps to a maximum of 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers), Finn ...

They found four pockets together contain more liquid magma than was present during large, caldera-forming eruptions at Yellowstone in the past (one 2.8 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago ...

With more trips planned for this fall and next summer, there is strong hope that the map will be done before the park's 150th Anniversary in 2022!