The striking image from the International Space Station captures the rain shadow effect, where a part of a mountain range is ...

Yellowstone visitors got to see a striking new thermal vent late last year – and it may make a return appearance. The new feature was spotted in Yellowstone National Park early on Aug. 5 by an ...

An aerial view looking to the west at the Roadside ... CREDIT: Figure by Jefferson Hungerford, Yellowstone National Park. “But as fall began to turn into winter, the steam plume gradually ...

in the latest edition of Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles, which is part of the USGS. Aerial view looking to the west at the Roadside Springs hydrothermal area and Nymph Lake showing the locations ...

New features form all the time in Yellowstone, though it is rare for a completely new thermal area to pop up. Researchers occasionally catch new areas forming through satellite imagery and aerial ...

When hydrologist Bob Beschta arrived in Yellowstone in 1996, he noticed something odd with the Lamar River. The stream was over-widened, the banks were eroding and precious soil was sloughing off ...