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 ...

Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had ...

Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of Earth’s largest volcanic systems, and right now that system is slowly reshaping the ground. Instruments show that the Yellowstone caldera is inflating into a ...

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon. Obviously, visible lava spewing from a volcano’s caldera, like Hawai’i’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 ...

Scientists say the way two large magma chambers are connected under Mount St. Helens may explain the peak's 1980 explosion, according to a report released Wednesday. One giant magma chamber is 5 to 12 ...

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 ...

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 ...