S trange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about Lake Toba, the Indonesian supervolcano that makes the Yellowstone caldera look small ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

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 ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Mark Stelten and Nicole Thomas, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone is a dynamic geologic system—the one constant is change. This is demonstrated daily ...

Yellowstone National Park is a place of wonder and beauty that never ceases to amaze the millions who visit each year.

Yellowstone National Park is a place of wonder and beauty that never ceases to amaze the millions who visit each year.