The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

It happened on Saturday morning, June 21, at the park’s Grand Prismatic Spring, Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S.

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies something extraordinary—a giant underground chamber filled with molten rock, trapped ...

The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles .

For generations, the majestic beauty of Yellowstone National Park has captivated millions, drawing visitors with its steaming geysers, vibrant hot springs, and abundant wildlife. Yet, beneath this ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is the 1,350-square-mile crater in the western-central portion of the park that formed when this volcano cataclysmically erupted about 640,000 years ago ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Magma underneath the Yellowstone Caldera — one of Earth’s biggest volcanic complexes — may be moving northeast, according to a study released by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on ...

Meanwhile, the largest pool of near-surface molten rock is east of the caldera, which may ultimately drive a transition of explosive eruptions outside the present caldera. Nature, 2025. DOI: 10. ...

No rivers ever ran out of the McDermitt caldera. By contrast, the other Yellowstone calderas were drained by waterways that carried away any lithium. Nature 641, 285 (2025) ...

Book Review. A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park. By Randall K. Wilson Counterpoint: 432 pages, $34 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may ...