A Yellowstone supereruption would be devastating, but scientists say it is not the volcano’s most likely threat. Here is what ...

Officials reported a hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin, forming new vents and a boiling pool with no ...

Few natural phenomena inspire as much fascination and concern as the Yellowstone supervolcano. Beneath the park’s famous geysers, hot springs, and geothermal features lies one of the largest volcanic ...

If the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupted tomorrow, life as we know it would come to an abrupt, yet perhaps agonizingly slow, end. Ash from a mega-eruption at Yellowstone would ...

The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory confirmed Tuesday that a hydrothermal explosion occurred in Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin ...

For decades, Yellowstone has been held up as one of the clearest examples of a volcanic system fed by an immense column of ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for what powers Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes. Instead of a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, a broad “mantle wind” may push hot rock beneath ...

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The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

Around 465 active geysers are roiling across Yellowstone National Park at any given time, with new ones regularly bubbling to ...