The Steamboat Geyser at Yellowstone National Park can spout 300 feet of scalding water into the air, a feature of the world's tallest active geyser. That is known. What isn't known is why is the ...

Steamboat is the world's tallest active geyser, but unlike Old Faithful, its eruptions are completely unpredictable. Now, a new analysis suggests that at least one recent Steamboat eruption got ...

Steamboat geyser, located in Norris Geyser Basin, had 128 major eruptions between March 2018 and the end of 2020. This may not seem very impressive at first — Old Faithful geyser can erupt that many ...

A geyser in Yellowstone National Park suddenly reawakened after years of sitting dormant — but there’s no reason to panic about an impending volcanic eruption, according to a new study. “We don’t find ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Jamie Farrell, assistant research ...

A week or so before Steamboat geyser erupted in Yellowstone National Park in April, water flow in the Norris Geyser Basin increased, and the temperature of the water jumped to nearly boiling point at ...

BILLINGS — Old Faithful it’s not. Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — the world’s tallest — has erupted for the first time in more than eight years. The nine-minute blast sent steaming hot ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Late last year, Jeff Carter happened upon Steamboat Geyser, the tallest active geyser in the world, just before it erupted. “It was so much louder and higher and ...

Henry Heasler figures he must have special powers. The two times that the famously unpredictable Steamboat geyser erupted last year in Yellowstone National Park, Heasler, the park's lead geologist, ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- Scientists in Yellowstone National Park have a wealth of new data to help figure out what makes Steamboat Geyser tick. Steamboat, the world's largest geyser, ...

What triggers geysers to go off is still not well understood. A new paper shows that one small earthquake likely triggered an eruption of the... When Steamboat goes WHOOSH, scientists look for answers ...