Large explosive eruptions occur in Yellowstone around once every 700,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts seem to be shifting to the northeast of the Yellowstone Caldera. This region could be the new locus of ...

More information: N. Bennington et al, The progression of basaltic–rhyolitic melt storage at Yellowstone Caldera, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08286-z Journal information: Nature ...

Sitting atop an active volcanic caldera, Yellowstone, America's first National Park, is home to more geological hydrothermal features (geysers, mud pots, hot springs, fumaroles) than are found in ...

A study on the Yellowstone Caldera, located at the center of the eponymous park and is one of the largest volcanic systems in the world, identified how much magma is currently beneath the caldera ...

The recent survey shows that the magma within them has not stood still. It now appears to be shifting to the northeast of the Yellowstone Caldera. For the past 160,000 or so years, the magma ...

The giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park is cooling off in the west but staying hot in the northeast.

“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, a volcano geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and lead author on a paper in Wednesday’s edition of ...

SEE ALSO: What will happen when the next supervolcano erupts, according to NASA There are different reservoirs, or pods, of magma below the Yellowstone Caldera, which is the sprawling basin formed ...