Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of Earth's most closely watched volcanic systems. The U.S. Geological Survey documented 52 earthquakes in July 2025 alone. All tremors remain classified as ...

Geoscientists have discovered a magma cap at Yellowstone National Park that is likely playing a critical role in preventing a massive eruption in one of the largest active volcanic systems in the ...

Midway Geyser Basin at Sunset, Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert/National Park Service) The northwest corner of Wyoming is boiling. There, 10,000 hydrothermal features transform Yellowstone ...

Scientists discovered a magma cap underneath Yellowstone National Park’s surface that may act as a lid to prevent the supervolcano from erupting. Photo by Chris Leipelt via Unsplash It’s no secret ...

That study concluded that the mantle plume powering Yellowstone’s supervolcano had been capped by a cold, sinking tectonic plate that had slid under the North American landmass millions of years ago, ...

It’s no secret that a super volcano lies miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park, but all this time researchers knew little beyond that — until now. A team of researchers recently made ...