Yellowstone National Park geologists have confirmed that a small hydrothermal explosion that occurred earlier this month formed a new thermal pool.

Just after 5:09 a.m., on Saturday, June 13, monitoring equipment in Biscuit Basin registered anomalous activity, including ...

“Ground that the team had walked on just 2 days earlier had developed into an actively boiling pool!” officials wrote on June ...

In the early hours of June 13, a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park’s Biscuit Basin sent several rocks ...

According to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, hydrothermal explosions are “violent and dramatic events resulting in the rapid ejection of boiling water, steam, mud, and rock fragments.” These ...

Early on the morning of Saturday, June 13, 2026, a small hydrothermal explosion occurred at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park. Although smaller than the explosion that occurred in the ...

The location of the new pool. (USGS/Public Domain) A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park – just two days after scientists were walking around on the exact patch of ground ...