Grand Prismatic Spring is a natural laboratory where geology, water chemistry, and biology combine ...

On Aug. 2, 2014, one Yellowstone tourist from the Netherlands, Theodorus Van Vliet, tried to get a eagle’s eye view of the spring with the use of a remote-controlled flying drone. But instead of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park shows ...

The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park is the largest natural hot spring in the country, and one of the third largest in the world. (Photo courtesy of Yellowstone National Park) ...

In Yellowstone National Park’s Midway Geyser Basin, a hot spring some 370 feet across glows in bands of blue, green, yellow, orange, and deep red that fan out from its center like a painter’s palette.

Two tourists sparked severe backlash when they risked their lives by walking across the Grand Prismatic Spring’s fragile bacterial mats in Yellowstone National Park. Tanya Saueressig, a visitor from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bison died after it appeared to stumble into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park last week while visitors looked on. The ...

Yellowstone officials saw few violators during the first few months of a new prohibition against drones launched from National Park Service land. But last weekend someone flew his drone into ...

A California man was sentenced to four days in jail, a $1,040 fine, one year of probation, and a one-year ban from Yellowstone after he was recorded jauntily walking across the off-limits outflow ...

From Rainbow Mountain in Peru to the Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming, there are many colorful sites around the world.

Anybody who has ever seen the stunning coloration of Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring could easily argue that the hot spring is one of the most beautiful natural sites on Earth. Located in the ...