Far beneath the forests and hot springs of the American West, the continent’s largest active volcanic system is rumbling in ...

Yellowstone has erupted three times in the past 2.1 million years, and each event buried large portions of North America ...

Few volcanoes on Earth boast the fantastical title of "supervolcano," but what makes these uber volcanoes so super, and is the superlative always justified? It very much depends on who you ask. A ...

A picture of Midway Geiser in Yellowstone National Park shows streams of red liquid flowing away from its center. The amount of melted rock beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano is far higher than ...

Advancements in technology appear to show that Yellowstone's seismic activity is increasing, allowing experts to better ...

California’s uncanny “earthquake pause” is over. It should have already had several “big ones” by now. All that pressure has to go somewhere. Now geologists are nervously eyeing eight nearby volcanoes ...

Fears of the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting have cropped up from time to time, but a newly released study suggests that the hotspot may actually be waning. The research, published earlier this ...

When Missy’s replica of the Yellowstone caldera erupted at the end of an episode in season 1 of Big Mouth, it turned out to be a dream. Inverse spoke to Andrews about how a supervolcano eruption would ...

The McDermitt Caldera most likely hosts the world's largest deposit of lithium trapped in claystone. Located on the Nevada – ...

Pluto with a super-cryovolcano? Why not! All the elements are there, just not in the way we normally think of volcanoes. And cryovolcanoes are the reason why Pluto's surface looks the way it does. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, United ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An aerial view of the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone ...