The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

According to Scott Bryan, in the 2008 edition of his book The Geysers of Yellowstone, there are at least 700 geysers in Yellowstone, with at least 500 that actively erupt; the remainder are dormant.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. — As Yellowstone National Park prepares for an influx of visitors this summer, they remind folks to enjoy the beauty and majesty of the park by following these tips: A ...

What is Yellowstone National Park? Yellowstone is the world's first national park. The park opened March 1, 1872, and boasts unique hydrothermal and geologic features on 2.2 million acres.

Seismic Imaging in Yellowstone. The team began their work using a seismic vibrator—a 53,000-pound truck outfitted with a device designed to send low-frequency vibrations into the ground. These ...

Click on the interactive map’s gray dots there and you read “Affected by ice,” which is reasonable for this early in the trout-hunting season. The Fall River Yellowstone Canal site near Squirrel, ...

There are 18 national parks near Salt Lake City and each is worth a visit. Here are the details on what to do at each one as ...

How Yellowstone compares to others. Yellowstone isn’t the only place on Earth with massive magma systems. In Indonesia, supervolcano Toba erupted about 74,000 years ago, leading to significant global ...

USGS researchers have unveiled the first map of prospective locations for hydrogen gas in the contiguous United States — and there's a lot more than they previously thought.

Should Yellowstone approach eruption, we wouldn't know whether it was on the cusp of small-scale destruction or large-scale calamity. Credit: Bennington et al, Nature/DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-08286-z ...