Hidden about 2.5 miles beneath the ice near the South Pole lies a lake that scientists believe represents a lost world, harboring organisms sealed off from the rest of the planet for millions of years ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown snow ...

NBC News: Antarctic scientists say the contnent’s largest, deepest subsurface lake, Lake Vostok, is likely teaming with thousands tiny varieties of organisms and fish. Share this article! NBC News: ...

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Scientists from the United States, France and Russia will equally share samples of an 11.7-meter (38.5-foot) ice core taken from the ice sheet above Lake Vostok, deep in the Antarctic interior, under ...

Why on earth are researchers studying Lake Vostok proposing to drill right through the kilometres of ice covering it, risking the contamination of its pristine contents and the possible explosive ...

Plans to drill into Lake Vostok, an underground Antarctic lake thought to have been isolated for 20 million years, could be revised after researchers revealed that it may contain two distinct ...

The reconstruction of the geological (tectonic) structure and environments of subglacial Lake Vostok is based on geophysical surveys and the study of mineral particles found in cores of accreted ice ...

Russian scientists are "very, very close" to reaching the surface of a freshwater lake 2.3 miles (3,768) meters under the Antarctic ice, news reports say. It would be the first time anyone has ...

Scientists from the United States, France and Russia will equally share samples of an 11.7-meter (38.5-foot) ice core taken from the ice sheet above Lake Vostok, deep in the Antarctic interior, under ...