A major Yellowstone eruption likely won’t happen for thousands, and potentially millions, of years. Scientists say that the magma underneath Yellowstone is mostly solid and not eruptible. One study ...

Shortly before 10 a.m. on July 23, 2024, a violent hydrothermal blast ripped through Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone, hurling mud and steam into a towering plume estimated at 400 to 600 feet high. The ...

Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone’s potential to blow its stack in the future. Chinese scientists have made a disconcerting find ...

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 ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most closely watched supervolcanoes. That is the picture emerging from a new ...

(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 ...

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 ...

What is a super eruption and how did they create the geology of Yellowstone? Where is the world's largest, most explosive, and most unusual volcano? It's Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone ...