Yellowstone National Park Archives

Yellowstone Has a 150-Year-Old Sonic Mystery—and Scientists Still Aren’t Sure What Causes It

Micah Hanks·August 26, 2026

Visitors to Yellowstone National Park have long reported unusual sounds that seem to center on the famous park’s largest lakes.

Yellowstone Quakes Offer Clues to Finding Underground Life on Other Worlds

Austin Burgess·December 4, 2025

A recent study published in PNAS Nexus reports that a swarm of small earthquakes beneath Yellowstone National Park set off a burst of biological activity deep underground.

Yellowstone Supervolcano Has a Hidden Magma Cap—How Close Are We to an Eruption?

Ryan Whalen·April 22, 2025

Yellowstone Caldera, the volcanic complex underneath Yellowstone National Park, is held at bay from eruption by a cap 3.8 meters underground.

What’s That Rumbling Beneath Yellowstone? Supervolcano Study Doubles Past Magma Estimates

Micah Hanks·December 2, 2022

According to new research, the Yellowstone Supervolcano contains almost twice the amount of magma researchers once believed.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Has a 150-Year-Old Sonic Mystery—and Scientists Still Aren’t Sure What Causes It

Yellowstone Quakes Offer Clues to Finding Underground Life on Other Worlds

Yellowstone Supervolcano Has a Hidden Magma Cap—How Close Are We to an Eruption?

What’s That Rumbling Beneath Yellowstone? Supervolcano Study Doubles Past Magma Estimates

Conflict in the Final Frontier: The U.S. and China are Preparing for a New Era of Warfare in Space

Biologists Were Wrong About the “American Cheetah” According to New Genetic Findings

“We Couldn’t Believe What We Were Seeing”: Scientists Have Discovered a Bizarre New Microbe with an “Alien” Reproductive Strategy

Wild Chimpanzees Keep Hurling Rocks at the Same Trees—Now Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why

4,000-Year-Old Tomb of Ancient Egyptian ‘Keeper of the Secrets’ Discovered at Saqqara

New Genetic Evidence of an Ancient Killer Has Surfaced After Being Concealed in Medieval Texts for Centuries

15,000-Year-Old Cave Discovery in Ireland Could Push Back Earliest Evidence of Humans on the Island by 5,000 Years

Astronomers Detected Three Mysterious “Glitches” in a Pulsar That Had Gone Silent for Years

Physicists Report Levitation Experiment That May Signal a Breakthrough in the Search for Mysterious Dark Matter

First-of-a-Kind Experiments Demonstrate Effects of Einstein’s Gravity in the Quantum World