Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape ...

Yellowstone's volcano is not extinct ... But I can't follow the caldera rim visually because much of it is beneath the lake and because of the sheer scale of the thing—roughly 45 miles across.

Fossil record tells us the super volcano burps every 700,000 years, give or take millennia. Be careful to keep track of this ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist ...

The study, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, adds information to the constant speculation about when the Yellowstone caldera could once again erupt. The newly clarified picture ...

Previous studies of Yellowstone had used the passage of earthquake waves through the caldera to try to gauge where liquid magma versus solid rock sat beneath the park. But waves can change their ...

Gibbon Falls is an 84-foot waterfall over a part of the Yellowstone caldera rim. From the parking lot, it’s an easy walk on a paved path to view the waterfall from above. I do recommend ...

According to an analysis published last week in the journal Nature, while a significant amount of magma is beneath the Yellowstone Caldera, it is stored in small, separate pockets rather than a ...