Large explosive eruptions occur in Yellowstone around once every 700,000 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A research team including a University of Michigan scientist has discovered a new mechanism that helps researchers understand ...

A team from UNIGE is transforming our understanding of gold transport and ore deposit formation by investigating sulfur in magmatic fluids under extreme pressures and temperatures. When one tectonic ...

A team of researchers, including a scientist from the University of Michigan, has uncovered a new gold-sulfur complex that ...

Scientists have long suspected that sulfur, which forms strong chemical bonds with gold, allows it to be transported up to ...

A team of USGS scientists, who surveyed the park’s underground magma reservoirs, recently confirmed the standard response, “probably not any time soon.” But they have pointed out that the area where ...

The giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park is cooling off in the west but staying hot in the northeast.

Bjorn Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla's magma. “We’re standing on the spot where we are going to ...

Yellowstone supervolcano ’s last eruption covered most of what is now the USA in volcanic ash and lava that flowed for ...

a place where a plume of the Earth's molten core rises up through the solid rock of crust, heating and melting it to form reservoirs of magma 2½ to 30 miles below the surface. In the past this ...