Mauna Kea When you think of the tallest mountains, instinctively, Mount Everest comes to mind. But here's a shocker: Mauna ...

Carnegie astronomy Wendy Freedman and team publish a new measurement of the expansion rate of the universe, or Hubble Constant, using Hubble Space Telescope observations to reach more distant Cepheid ...

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

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

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Dr. Michael Poland with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory talks about the possibility of the Yellowstone caldera erupting ...

Are there any other magma systems in the world? Yellowstone is not singular in having massive magma systems. For example, Indonesia's supervolcano Toba erupted around 74,000 years ago, causing ...

The park's largest recorded earthquake, a magnitude 6, occurred on June 30, 1975, along the north-central boundary of Yellowstone Caldera, a few miles southeast of Norris Geyser Basin. No injuries ...

The "Field of Dreams" and "Dances with Wolves" legend brings this idea to life in "Yellowstone to Yosemite ... of tragic events separated by time and space intersecting in a seemingly impossible ...

Scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory made an important discovery that pointed to fundamental changes within the supervolcano system. Scientific experts have reevaluated regional stability ...

While Krakatoa remains one of history's most catastrophic eruptions, it doesn’t qualify as a supervolcano. Instead, scientists have long monitored volcanic giants like Yellowstone, nestled in ...