Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit). If the team does reach the lake water, they will bring its water up through the hole ...

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For 15 million years, a vast icebound lake has been sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or other unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of ...

At Vostok station, scientists from the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute began testing meteorological equipment to launch automated observations at the ...

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 ...

India shivers as a cold wave grips the north, but extreme temperatures elsewhere are truly astonishing. Antarctica's Vostok Station holds the official record at -89.2°C, while Siberia's Oymyakon is ...

With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok - the world's most enigmatic lake. Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some ...

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 ...

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