Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of the most studied volcanic systems on Earth, and the question of what a full-scale caldera-forming eruption would do to the United States draws enormous ...

S trange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park.

While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United States Geological Survey determined that Yellowstone’s magma chamber ...

Over the last 10 years or so, I’ve featured numerous articles about the Yellowstone supervolcano. We know that it is located practically in our backyard and any changes related to hydrothermal or ...

Did anyone else grow up in perpetual fear of any and all natural disasters? I don’t know if it was cartoons or what, but as a kid who lived in the very urban city of Philadelphia, I was convinced I ...

Earthquakes rattle the ground while cannon-like explosions shoot burning rock and ash into the air at speeds upwards of 600 miles per hour. The burning rocks crash to the earth, setting the grass and ...

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 erupted again, ...

If Yellowstone’s supervolcano erupted today, the consequences would be catastrophic. And while experts say that an eruption this century is very unlikely, NASA scientists performed a thought ...

Something subtle is changing once more beneath Yellowstone's towering pines and roaring geysers. Since the middle of 2025, satellite data has shown a subtle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steamboat Geyser erupts in the Norris Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park on September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jacob W.