Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Yellowstone National Park has a new plan for dealing with geologic hazards like thermal explosions and earthquakes for the ...

Data could help to reveal the warning signs of potentially dangerous eruptions caused by liquid groundwater abruptly turning into gas.

Scientists have studied Yellowstone National Park's magmatic system for years, but a new view of the magma chamber shows the long-dormant supervolcano is not at immediate risk of eruption.

Inside the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption that would 'instantly' kill 90,000 people Geologists recently discovered signs of rhyolitic volcanism in the northeast-shifting Yellowstone caldera.

Thankfully, USGS reassures that there is still about 100,000 years to go before the supervolcano is likely to erupt. 'In terms of large explosions, Yellowstone has experienced three at 2.08, 1.3 ...

When Yellowstone erupts again, as it certainly will, it won't matter whether people live in Bozeman, Montana or Cody, Wyoming -- they'll be just as dead. But new seismological research has finally ...

Yellowstone’s supervolcano isn’t erupting anytime soon, but it continues to be a window into the Earth’s incredible power. Let’s marvel at its beauty while staying curious about its mysteries.

Every 700,000 years or so, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts. And it does so with a whoosh. Not a bang. The supervolcano is not the enormous mound of ash and lava you see in school textbooks.

– Yellowstone volcano super-eruptions appear to involve multiple explosive events "We have a much lower concentration of magma in these pore spaces, so a lot fewer of the pore spaces are filled ...

They found four pockets together contain more liquid magma than was present during large, caldera-forming eruptions at Yellowstone in the past (one 2.8 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago ...