Yellowstone is a beloved natural wonder, but beneath that beautiful exterior, the park houses a scary secret. In fact, it ...

Bob Christian­sen, now retired, suspects the supervolcano may be safely bottled up. For most of its history, the Yellowstone hot spot has formed calderas in the thin crust of the Basin and Range ...

A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our ...

The high temperatures are caused by the Yellowstone Hot Spot, a volcanic hotspot under the region, which is responsible for volcanic activity in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: There's a volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park. But it's not your average volcano. It's hundreds of meters deep, larger than the state of ...

The Stanley earthquake rattled Idaho in 2020. Geologists spent the past four years learning more about the fault that caused ...

One question that lurks in the back of many visitors’ minds as they traverse through one of the world’s largest active volcanoes is: when is Yellowstone’s next eruption going to be?

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory ... area over the Yellowstone hotspot. This zone of seismicity ...