Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies something extraordinary—a giant underground chamber filled with molten rock, trapped ...

Recent research reveals that Yellowstone’s magma chamber contains significantly more liquid magma than scientists previously estimated, suggesting that the supervolcano might be closer to erupting ...

“The Yellowstone system is one that’s been stagnant for a long time.” The volcano’s largest eruption, which earned it the title of a supervolcano, occurred 2.1 million years ago.

Footage from Scott’s phone recorded the moment he fell in and his sister’s efforts to rescue him. Officials chose not to release this footage. ‘Hot potting’ is in fact illegal in Yellowstone because ...

On May 31, 2025, a webcam in Yellowstone National Park detected a small explosion in the Biscuit Basin Area—the same zone that suffered an unexpectedly destructive hydrothermal eruption less ...

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 ...

The incident occurred at Grand Prismatic Spring near Old Faithful as tourists were enjoying a close-up view of the famous and ...

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 recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

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