Recently, a Russian research team reached the waters of Lake Vostok. Vostok is one of the largest lakes on Earth, but the body of water escaped attention for many years because it’s buried under ...

Researchers have discovered more than 3,500 distinct life forms in an Antarctic lake that was previously considered inhospitable. Buried beneath 3,700m -- more than two miles -- of ice, Lake Vostok is ...

A first analysis of ice pulled from the largest body of water buried beneath Antarctica has yielded nothing but pristine water, untouched in tens of millions of years. But that doesn’t mean the lake ...

Antarctica’s Lake Vostok, a giant body of water buried beneath about 13,000 feet of ice, has had a surge of publicity in recent years. Subglacial lakes were suspected to exist beneath the continent’s ...

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles of ice, a pristine body of ...

Microbes that live inside fish intestines are among the array of life that appear to have been found in ice drilled from above Lake Vostok, the deepest lake buried beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. The ...

Have you ever heard of Lake Vostok? No, it is not a tony resort outside Moscow. In fact, no one has ever taken a vacation there. It is located under more than two miles of ice not far from the South ...

Even by Antarctic standards, the Lake Vostok research station is inhospitable. The outpost at the heart of the frozen continent holds the record for the lowest naturally occurring temperature ever ...

We never expected this particular saga to go smoothly, and so the latest tit-for-tat over Lake Vostok and its possible Brand New Lifeforms is depressingly familiar. A quick primer: Lake Vostok is a ...

In February, a team of Russian scientists made headlines when they reached the surface of a lake buried two miles beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet. The icy body of water, which had not been exposed to ...

Antarctica’s Lake Vostok doesn’t seem like the most hospitable home on the planet for any kind of life. Trapped under a glacier 2.3 miles thick, it’s subject to extreme pressures, extreme cold, ...