A deer searches for food on July 9, 2024, at Yellowstone National Park. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It is full of spectacular geysers and ...

While the Yellowstone hotspot is well-known for producing super-eruptions far more explosive than those of human experience, less is known about the ultimate source of these eruptions or the longevity ...

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NASA is keeping an eye on Yellowstone, but not for the reason you might think. While most people worry about the supervolcano erupting, NASA is more interested in its extreme environment. The hot ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Zach Lifton, geologist with the Idaho ...

It’s not hard to see why researchers are worried about a Yellowstone eruption. If the supervolcano were to erupt, the consequences would be devastating. The ashfall alone could render vast areas ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano has produced some of the largest eruptions known to man, thus there is understandably significant interest in monitoring its activity. But is it possible to predict when ...

Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. is a world-renowned tourist attraction, hosting nearly 5 million visitors in 2021. But all that human activity comes with a price, according to a new ...

Visit Yellowstone National Park, our first and one of the most visited national parks. Yellowstone National Park is our first, and one of the most visited national parks. In winter, access is limited, ...

A new University of Utah study in the journal Science provides the first complete view of the plumbing system that supplies hot and partly molten rock from the Yellowstone hotspot to the Yellowstone ...

Seismic imaging was used by University of Utah scientists to construct this 3-D picture of the Yellowstone hotspot plume of hot and molten rock that feeds the shallower magma chamber (not shown) ...