Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of the most studied volcanic systems on Earth, and the question of what a full-scale ...

While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United States Geological Survey determined that Yellowstone’s magma chamber ...

S trange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park. Since July, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have been monitoring an uplift in the surface of the Earth spanning 19 ...

A gigantic bulge in the north rim of the Yellowstone caldera is the latest sign of volcanic activity in the national park. Geologists call this type of bulge “volcanic uplift.” It’s often caused by ...

(via PBS Terra) Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the history of the continental United States. And if Yellowstone ...

Valentine Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park unexpectedly sprang to life again with 13 documented ...

A muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park has been captured on camera. The video was recorded by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory webcam Saturday morning. They said the ...

A big, messy surprise greeted Yellowstone National Park early Saturday morning, just as winter officially began. At around 9:23 a.m., a powerful mud eruption took place at the Black Diamond Pool in ...

U of U geology professor Robert B. Smith has made a 50-year career out of studying Yellowstone. He presents a lecture on the Yellowstone Supervolcano Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Skaggs ...