A picture of Midway Geiser in Yellowstone National Park shows streams of red liquid flowing away from its center. The amount of melted rock beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano is far higher than ...

Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

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

Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers finds a new study, overturning classic ideas about volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers ...

A giant magma chamber has been discovered growing underneath an active submarine volcano in Greece. Scientists, who have published a study on the chamber in the American Geophysical Union's ...

The future of geology — and maybe even renewable energy — is heating up, literally. Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that ...

A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used ...

The Midway Geyser Basin walk to Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is a popular attraction. Mark Boster TNS Yellowstone National Park sits above a massive, active volcano. Using a new ...

The events leading up to the birth of a new volcano have been recorded by scientists, with researchers showing how around 7,000 earthquakes were produced in the lead up to an eruption, where a huge ...

Basaltic magma chambers may develop as large bodies of crystal-free melts in the Earth's crust. This study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystal-rich ...

WASHINGTON — A geothermal-power company drilling a mile and a half deep on one of the Hawaiian Islands has encountered an undisturbed chamber of magma, or molten rock, scientists reported this week.