Far below the ice, the secrets of our planet's past hang on – and so do those of the aliens we may one day meet out near ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Parts of both the Arctic and Antarctic have experienced historically high temperatures in recent weeks, ...

Selected images from the Lake Vostok B-roll package. NSF-supported scientists, including John Priscu of Montana State University, dressed in cold-weather clothing, examine a piece of ice core taken ...

An international panel of scientists will discuss research conducted at Lake Vostok in Antarctica at a press conference on Tuesday, May 28, as part of the American Geophysical Union’s 2002 Spring ...

Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica's central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok, after the Vostok research station above it, ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa’s SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a colleague of physical assault. We research Antarctic governance and crime in ...

Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive Antarctic temperatures below -70°C and have revealed the main cause of warming ...

All the production facilities of the Vostok Oil project are building constructed with the use of technologies successfully tested in the Vankor cluster, the company informed MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/.