Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The fear is understandable: three massive caldera-forming eruptions have occurred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Strange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park. Since July, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have been monitoring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellowstone averages between 1,500 and 2,500 earthquakes per year. In Yellowstone National Park, a bulge the size of 279 football ...

Yellowstone has documented an eruption from its Echinus Geyser, which slowly ceased erupting in the decades leading up to ...

Stay calm, the ground has risen an inch across a 20-mile area around the northern edge of Yellowstone's caldera since last July. This isn't the precursor to a massive cinematic moment. Yellowstone ...

Did anyone else grow up in perpetual fear of any and all natural disasters? I don’t know if it was cartoons or what, but as a kid who lived in the very urban city of Philadelphia, I was convinced I ...

The world’s largest acidic geyser is located in Norris Geyser Basin. Lately, it’s been putting on quite a show.

A new thermal vent spewing steam in the air at Yellowstone National Park is gaining attention, mainly because it's visible from a road rather than any significant change in the park famous for its ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone is a dynamic geologic system—the one constant is change. This is demonstrated daily ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the ...

The otherworldly landscapes of Yellowstone National Park have captured imaginations for centuries, with their bubbling mud pots, peculiar rainbow-colored pools, and dramatic geysers that shoot skyward ...

U of U geology professor Robert B. Smith has made a 50-year career out of studying Yellowstone. He presents a lecture on the Yellowstone Supervolcano Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Skaggs ...