Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

“It really shows the tenacity of life, and how organisms can survive in places where a couple dozen years ago we thought nothing could survive.” Lake Vostok is the largest of 375 or so subglacial ...

The director of Russia's Antarctic program ... lake water samples and analyze them for genetic evidence of life. Lake Vostok has been undisturbed for 15 million years. It's a cold, dark place ...

Research into ice samples from Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in the Antarctic, can help scientists discover some unknown forms of bacterial life MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Research ...

Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI) said in a statement: ”A new winter complex has been put into operation at ...

Lake Vida, a salty lake buried under a 60-foot-thick sheet of ice in Antarctica, has renewed scientists' hopes of finding alien life in space, even in the most inhospitable places. The lake ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Lake Enigma, once thought to be solid ice, lies a hidden layer of liquid water teeming with life. 'The Atlantic’s biggest tunnel yet': Europe and America linked by green ...

More than 100 years ago explorers raced to discover the South Pole Now scientists are racing to discover the secret subterranean world of rivers and lakes buried miles beneath it In 1974 ...