Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of Earth’s largest volcanic systems, and right now that system is slowly reshaping the ground. Instruments show that the Yellowstone caldera is inflating into a ...

S trange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park.

When geologists study volcanic hazards or try to anticipate what a volcano may do in the future, one of their primary tools is to examine the volcano’s past behavior.

The bulge first appeared in 1996 and has now returned, but Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says there's no cause for alarm.

Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

Yellowstone National Park is a place of wonder and beauty that never ceases to amaze the millions who visit each year.

While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United States Geological Survey determined that Yellowstone’s magma chamber ...

Researchers have found evidence that a giant “lid” made of magma could be stopping the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park from erupting. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature ...

Midway Geyser Basin at Sunset, Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert/National Park Service) The northwest corner of Wyoming is boiling. There, 10,000 hydrothermal features transform Yellowstone ...

Officials at Yellowstone National Park are shutting down rumors circulating on social media about wildlife leaving the park due to potential volcanic eruptions. Claims about animals leaving ...

Thanks to some videos -- at least one uses AI -- there have been questions about whether a bunch of the animals living in Yellowstone National Park are leaving. Why would the wildlife leave? The ...

“Even more colossal” is the way University of Utah researchers now describe the Yellowstone super volcano, which lies under the Wyoming’s northwest corner, after discovering that it is over twice as ...