“You have the potential for truly enormous eruptions, possibly up to 10,000 cubic kilometers erupted in a single event,” Leif ...

Yellowstone's volcanic past reveals a dynamic system of repeated caldera-forming eruptions and smaller lava flows, with magma ...

Scientists have uncovered tens of thousands of previously unseen earthquakes beneath Yellowstone, a reminder that one of the ...

A remote volcanic crater near the Oregon–Nevada border may hold a hidden resource worth over $1.5 trillion. But as drilling ...

Although the Yellowstone hotspot burned a swath of volcanic chaos across southern Idaho during the past 17 million years, it ...

Yellowstone National Park feels like a living Earth museum, where bubbling geothermal wonders, sweeping valleys full of ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Kablooey!” That’s the word U.S. Geological Survey volcanic experts used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in ...

Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park has been active since its massive hydrothermal explosion in July 2024. It’s ...

Several other eruptions have occurred in the past weeks, but all went unseen. Serendipitous timing, however, allowed scientists to record the December 20 ejection from Black Diamond Pool. The area ...

The reason the region is safe is because, aside from Yellowstone being closed during the winter months, it has not yet reopened since the large blast a few years ago. The boardwalks themselves have ...

The agency said the Black Diamond Pool was previously the site of a hydrothermal explosion, in July 2024, that sent rocks and mud flying hundreds of feet high and damaged a boardwalk. It prompted the ...