Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move, according to research published in the journal Nature, where a team of scientists said they found a build-up in a corner of a vast 50 kilometre by 70 ...

Despite the impressive size of Yellowstone National Park (about 8,992 square kilometers, or 2.2 million acres), the total surface area covered by thermal areas is only about 70 km2 (17,300 acres ...

The answer? There is a very sharp transition marking the magma chamber top at about 3.8 kilometers (2.4 miles) depth beneath the northeastern part of the caldera near the Yellowstone River.

Thankfully, Yellowstone or any supervolcano of its size has never erupted within recorded human history. But now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what that would look like.

Nearly as famous as Yellowstone, Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, Italy, experienced violent explosive eruptions 39,000 years ago and also 15,000 years ago, although neither was anywhere near ...

They found four pockets together contain more liquid magma than was present during large, caldera-forming eruptions at Yellowstone in the past (one 2.8 million years ago, one 1.3 million years ago ...

The historical catalogue for the Yellowstone caldera now contains 86,276 earthquakes spanning the years 2008 to 2022, significantly improving previous understanding of volcanic and seismic systems ...

Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus, Yellowstone National Park's scenery and wildlife make it one of the biggest draws for tourists in the US. But those ...