It’s no doubt that an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would be a tragedy, endangering the lives of people and wildlife within the area. All we can hope is that the paper is right and ...

Left behind is a giant caldera, from the Spanish word for "cauldron." The "hot spot" responsible for the Yellowstone caldera has erupted dozens of times in the past, going back some 18 million years.

A Wildlife Photographer of the ... More than a third of Yellowstone, including Grand Prismatic Spring, sits within the caldera of a giant, ancient, yet still active volcano. Someday it will ...

Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus, Yellowstone National Park's scenery and wildlife make ... sits atop a supervolcano crater that has had at least one ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Richard Tollo, emeritus professor ...

According to an analysis published last week in the journal Nature, while a significant amount of magma is beneath the Yellowstone Caldera, it is stored in small, separate pockets rather than a ...