The Yellowstone supervolcano, located beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, is one of the most powerful volcanic systems on Earth. Known for its catastrophic eruptions in the distant past, ...

Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

Yellowstone has witnessed three major eruptions in the past 2.1 million years, with each one producing enough ash and lava to fill the Grand Canyon. However, the last minor eruption occurred ...

Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

especially considering that Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions have been Earth-shattering at least three times in the past. What the researchers discovered when looking into the volcano was that ...

“The Yellowstone system is one that’s been stagnant for a long time.” The volcano’s largest eruption, which earned it the title of a supervolcano ... deaths over the past 150 years.

It’s also one of the largest volcanoes on Earth ... Nature, 2025 An apocalypse named Yellowstone Every 700,000 years or so, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts. And it does so with a whoosh.

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist ...