YELLOWSTONE, Wyoming (KIFI) – A new crater has made its debut in Yellowstone National Park, filled with near-boiling water and caused by pressure changes just below the surface in Biscuit Basin.

Few places fuel doomsday headlines like Yellowstone. America’s most famous national park sits atop a supervolcano, and the ...

A slow, eastward-moving current of hot rock deep within Earth may be the primary force feeding Yellowstone’s volcanic system, according to a study published in Science on April 9, 2026. Researchers at ...

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Officials reported a hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin, forming new vents and a boiling pool with no ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for what powers Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes. Instead of a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, a broad “mantle wind” may push hot rock beneath ...

Yellowstone National Park geologists have confirmed that a small hydrothermal explosion that occurred earlier this month ...

According to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, hydrothermal explosions are “violent and dramatic events resulting in the rapid ejection of boiling water, steam, mud, and rock fragments.” These ...

Two years after a dramatic explosion in Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin, a new geyser shot up near Black Diamond Pool.

The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory confirmed Tuesday that a hydrothermal explosion occurred in Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin ...

“Ground that the team had walked on just 2 days earlier had developed into an actively boiling pool!” officials wrote on June ...

A desperate search was underway Friday on Indonesia’s Halmahera island for three hikers missing after the Mount Dukono volcano erupted. Three hikers died, and nearly 20 others were rescued. Dramatic ...