No, Yellowstone isn’t erupting, but researchers now know where the next major eruption is most likely to take place

A detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only one region is likely to host liquid magma in the long term.

"This number is based simply on averaging the two intervals between the three major past eruptions at Yellowstone—this is hardly enough to make a critical judgment," the USGS Yellowstone fact sheet reads. "Catastrophic geologic events are neither regular nor predictable."

New research has revealed when Yellowstone's supervolcano will erupt next, as it now contains a higher volume of magma than it's previous three eruptions that formed the caldera