The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa. Thankfully, Yellowstone has never ...

The scientists don’t look to be all that alarmed. That is, nobody expects it’s going to grow to astronomical heights and ...

Today, Yellowstone remains a place of low volcanic risk. Sure, there are sometimes small explosions stoked by hot water and ...

"The great basin," he wrote, "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano." The lieutenant was right: Yellowstone is a volcano, and not just any volcano. The oldest, most famous ...

Have you ever wondered why Yellowstone is full of hot springs ... Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze explains the supervolcano that lies beneath the national park and answers the life-or-death ...

There are approximately 20 supervolcanoes in the world, one of the most famous being Yellowstone. Today, the supervolcano is a hot tourist attraction, despite seeing frequent earthquakes.

Super eruptions have notably occurred at the Yellowstone volcanic system ... Antarctica has a few volcanoes, but none has produced a mega eruption, Farrell said. But he speculated a large eruption ...

A thin coat of gray mud confirmed the vent was new, according to a recent online post by scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory overseen by the U.S. Geological Survey. Mike Poland ...