Earth has some massive volcanoes called "supervolcanoes" that can cause huge eruptions, way bigger than anything we’ve ever ...

Supervolcanoes are bigger than you think, and there are more of them than you think. There are, in fact, eight supervolcanoes ...

Supervolcanoes are actually calderas, or bowl-shaped craters that form after a volcano explodes and then collapses into its own magma chamber. Just to make things more complicated: While all ...

Previously, it was thought that an outside force, like an earthquake, is what causes supervolcanoes to spew thousands of cubic kilometers of ash and lava into the atmosphere, potentially ushering ...

Supervolcanoes are superlative in every respect. The eruption of the Toba caldera in modern-day Indonesia approximately 74,000 years ago was so powerful that it led to a period of global cooling ...

Hypercanes, supervolcanoes, and what Earth’s distant past can teach us about where we are now by: Eric Stinton. Posted: Jun 2, 2020 / 04:20 PM HST. Updated: Jun 2, 2020 / 04:44 PM HST.

Supervolcanoes are a huge but little understood natural disaster waiting to happen. Only a handful of such volcanoes exist in the world, but should one erupt the effect would be devastating.

Two long-dormant “supervolcanoes” on two separate continents appear to be stirring to life. Well, maybe. In recent months, more than a thousand minor earthquakes have rattled the area around ...

Supervolcanoes were instrumental in shaping geological formations and the climate on our own planet, and the same goes for Mars, Michalski said.

The surface of ancient Mars may have been rocked repeatedly by giant supervolcanoes, which unleashed colossal and explosive eruptions that forever changed the face of the Red Planet, scientists say.

The reconstruction of a massive eruption 4.5 million years ago near Yellowstone National Park suggests that magma chambers merging together beneath a supervolcano can trigger explosions in less ...