To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit ...

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 ...

The largest rhyolitic storage zone lies under the northeast part of Yellowstone Caldera, with a volume comparable to the smallest past caldera-forming eruptions (approximately 400 cubic kilometers).

Three supervolcanoes that are more dangerous than Yellowstone and could wipe out the entire planet. Earth is hiding the ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

Firstly, the most immediately devastating effects would be felt by the regions closest to the Yellowstone Caldera, a 43-by-28-mile-wide depression formed by previous eruptions. It is thought that ...

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.

Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma through time and leaving chains of volcanic features in their wake, although they do so in very different ways.

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Nikolay Patrushev cited recent research showing that a simulated eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, which has shown increasing signs of active volcanic status over the years, and what ...

We may see some riots, but we now have leadership that isn’t shy about law and order, and in my view, most people would ...