A new model of Yellowstone’s magma system suggests it is fueled by melts from the shallow mantle, guided by tectonic forces, ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

Beneath the geysers and hot springs that draw roughly 4.5 million visitors to Yellowstone each year, a pocket of magma sits ...

A new geodynamic model is reshaping how scientists understand supervolcanoes, revealing that their magma systems may be far more diffuse and dynamic than previously believed.

A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this ...

Yellowstone National Park is full of surprises. With more than 10,000 geothermal features dotted across its forests and basins, this wild landscape of steam, mudpots, hot springs, and jets of boiling ...

Researchers are using a technique to map out Yellowstone’s subsurface. The method is geophysics, a subfield of geology that ...

Supereruptions are extremely large volcanic eruptions that eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of magma, rock and ash.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellowstone’s massive supervolcano and Mount St. Helens, the volcano that devastated Washington in 1980, are among America’s most ...

Volcanoes are Earth’s geologic architects. They’ve created more than 80 percent of our planet’s surface, laying the foundation that has allowed life to thrive. Their explosive force crafts mountains ...