Scientists uncover how underground mantle winds create and control powerful supervolcano eruptions like Yellowstone.

Supereruptions are extremely large volcanic eruptions that eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of magma, rock and ash.

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A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has developed a ...

A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this ...

Now, a team of scientists from China and the United States has provided the first comprehensive explanation of how the magma ...

A paper published in Nature Communications suggests that dissolved gases returning into cooling magma, rather than escaping from it, could help drive some of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth.

In A Nutshell Japan’s Kikai Caldera, which produced probably the largest eruption of the past 10,000 years, appears to be slowly refilling with magma from below. Seismic imaging revealed a large magma ...