Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried ...

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 team of Russian scientists says it has unearthed the prehistoric subglacial Lake Vostok, two-and-a-half miles below sea level, opening up an ancient and possibly undiscovered world of life below the ...

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 ...

Russian researchers say they have brought up fresh samples of clear ice from Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a huge reservoir of freshwater more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) beneath the surface. Lake ...

Antarctica is a rather cold place. Well, I guess that’s putting things a bit mildly. In truth, it is generally seen a being one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, and it happens to be the place ...

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 ...

First off, some back story. This will end up as a mini-editorial, but some of you will find this very interesting. Lake Vostok is a large (10,000km2), presumably fresh water body located under some ...

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, ...