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 ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Most volcanic eruptions are of the basaltic variety. The eruptions are typically rather tame. Every once in a while, however, the same types of eruptions turn violent and explosive.

Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually churning and shifting under the immense pressure and stress of a ...

Researchers have found a new way to estimate how fast magma is recharging beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano. While their findings offer no help in predicting if the volcano will erupt, they can now ...

It’s not hard to see why researchers are worried about a Yellowstone eruption. If the supervolcano were to erupt, the ...

International group of researchers involving geologists from Wits University (Prof. Rais Latypov and Dr. Sofya Chistyakova) in Johannesburg have come up with an unexpected conclusion that basaltic ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has been doing an excellent job ofmonitoring the eruption at Eritrea's Nabro using all their eyes in the sky. The latest image, taken from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (see ...