Yellowstone National Park has a new plan for dealing with geologic hazards like thermal explosions and earthquakes for the ...

After a multi-decade march of progressive excesses across our nation’s institutions, the pressure rose enough for the people ...

On June 23, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck a city in China, but it didn't stop a young boy for going back for seconds. His family was eating when the father took the boys and ran for shelter. But ...

BOISE, Idaho — The latest earthquake swarm in central Idaho could help scientists better understand quake belts extending from Yellowstone National Park. The most recent swarm in the Challis ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Huge boulders lay beside the road through Gibbon Canyon in Yellowstone National Park Tuesday morning after an all night ...

Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

Yellowstone’s magma chamber is mostly made of a light-colored rock called rhyolite. It spreads out over an area roughly 55 miles long and 30 miles wide and reaches down to a depth of about 10 miles.

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

OUR WORST NATIONAL STAIN also gave rise to our most inspiring mass movement: the civil rights struggle. We were challenged to ...