Many hands have been wrung over Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano, which has the power to deliver global catastrophe ...

There's not even a hint of a looming eruption at Yellowstone. But you might wonder why, considering its violent past: Yellowstone has hosted "supereruptions" — the most explosive type of ...

The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles. The findings mean that the ...

A volcanic eruption is unlikely to occur at Yellowstone National Park because of the magma formations underneath, according to research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, and the ...

Yellowstone National Park is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US, but it is also home to one of the ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in a cataclysmic eruption. It was an Earth-shaking event.

According to research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, a volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park is unlikely due to the structure of the underlying magma formations ...

The Yellowstone Caldera—the name refers to the large crater left behind after an eruption—is one of the largest volcanic systems on Earth. It is fed by the "Yellowstone Hotspot," where hot ...

Yet the Yellowstone volcanic system blasted more than twice that amount of rock into the sky about 2 million years ago, and it has generated a number of massive (if somewhat smaller) eruptions ...

Rangers at Yellowstone National Park are often asked to predict when the next massive volcanic eruption will occur there. A team of USGS scientists, who surveyed the park’s underground magma ...