Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. he Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series vitrophyre at Gibbon River This photo shows the exposure of the Mount Jackson Rhyolite Series ...

Scientists say the 19-mile-wide bulge in the northern rim of a volcano's caldera in Yellowstone has stopped growing. The head ...

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 ...

The year 2024 will probably be remembered as the year of the hydrothermal explosion, with one event that was unwitnessed but ...

Supereruptions are extremely large volcanic eruptions that eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of magma, rock and ash. They are among the most hazardous geological events on Earth and have profound ...

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 ...

A major Yellowstone eruption likely won’t happen for thousands, and potentially millions, of years. Scientists say that the ...

Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National Park — marked by a thermal feature eruption ...

For decades, researchers in and around Yellowstone National Park have used seismic waves – imagine giving the region an MRI – to map the hot mush below the Earth’s surface. Now a group of scientists ...