Learn how an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would affect North America, and why one isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future.

"Imagine the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. There's not really much you can do to prepare for that," Iacovino said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellowstone eruption, illustration. Is this what it would actually look like? Picture this: You're roaming Yellowstone National ...

Beneath the landscape of Wyoming sits one of the most closely watched volcanic systems on Earth. Yellowstone is far more than ...

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, ...

Gautam Dev, a 61-year-old software engineer, is battling the challenges of finding full-time employment after his recent job loss. Financial hardships have forced him to turn to gig work and launch a ...

The Yellowstone volcanic system is one of the largest and most closely monitored volcanic regions on Earth. Beneath the national park lies a vast reservoir of partially molten rock, while thousands of ...

The super-volcano beneath the Yellowstone National Park in US would detonate with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.This is the nightmare that scientist ...

The volcanic formation, which sits underneath the 30-by-45-mile Yellowstone Caldera, is among the most studied on Earth due to its potential for a supereruption when a volcano ejects over 230 cubic ...

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 ...

Beneath Yellowstone Park a monstrous plume of hot rock is causing the earth to heave and tremble. Past volcanoes have erupted ...

This isn't the climax of a post-apocalyptic movie. It's a worst-case scenario of what could happen if one of the largest volcanic systems on the planet erupted today. And it's hiding beneath America's ...