Yellowstone National Park has once again become the centre of global attention, not because of its geysers or wildlife, but ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

Early humans appear to have survived the eruption of a supervolcano 74,000 years ago and the volcanic winter that followed, researchers have said.

The last major volcanic events before the Lava Creek eruption at Yellowstone, which is one of the top five most dangerous supervolcanoes in the world, happened 1.3 million and 2.1 million years ago.

A supervolcano is located at Yellowstone National Park. Here's what happens to North America and the rest of the world if ...

Fast forward to 2025, and there have been only three eruptions of Mauna Loa in the past 75 years since 1950: 1975, 1984, and ...

Researchers consider the Yellowstone Caldera a supervolcano because of how big the eruptions are. Based on the volcanic exclusivity index, any volcano that produces 240 or more cubic miles of ...

The last caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone "was much more complex than previously thought," according to the annual report about activity at the supervolcano. The last super-eruption at ...

During an eruption, the surface of a volcano deforms, or changes shape. The color bands in the lower-right animation box show those changes from before to midway through Kilauea’s 2018 eruption.

Kilauea's 2018 eruption, however, was especially massive and accompanied by a summit collapse.In fact, it was the volcano's largest eruption in over 200 years. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The eruption of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has stayed within the mountain’s summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No homes were threatened.