Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

The work builds on more than two decades of scientific research in Yellowstone National Park by MSU professor Bill Inskeep.

Scientists have assessed Yellowstone's chances of eruption by measuring electronic currents flowing deep within the Earth ...

Yellowstone's magma system shows new activity, with the northeast sector possibly hosting future volcanic activity.

There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another ... tufa towers — calcium-carbonate spires ...

Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

While this Greek island is often overcrowded come summer, Heidi Fuller-Love discovers that Santorini is far more pleasant in ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

Scientists have discovered more information about two huge 'islands' that are hidden beneath the Earth's surface. Found deep in the mantle, more than 1,000 miles underground, they are the size of ...

Greenland split from Europe, drifted westward, and even travelled over the Icelandic hotspot – a place where molten lava from deep beneath the Earth's crust wells up, contributing to the ...