Yellowstone National Park geologists identified a new thermal feature in Norris Geyser Basin. It may have coincided with a ...

Yellowstone National Park, known for its stunning landscapes and geothermal features, is sitting atop one of the most ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

It happened on Saturday morning, June 21, at the park’s Grand Prismatic Spring, Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano ...

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

We know the caldera has made three impressive eruptions in its history, 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and about 631,000 years ago, reshaping the area’s landscape. What everyone ...

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park. But there are some common misconceptions about what ...

The last caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone "was much more complex than previously thought," according to the annual report about activity at the supervolcano. The last super-eruption at ...

What will happen to Yellowstone once its rhyolite magma system shuts down? To understand the future, geologists look to the past — in this case, to Yellowstone Caldera’s older but ...

In a corner of Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming, lies the Yellowstone Caldera, a crater situated over Yellowstone’s super volcano.The volcano has produced three Earth-shattering ...

It’s some explosive news in the geologic community. Researchers discovered two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone caldera, they announced in a study published June 1. The more recent of… ...