Lake Vostok, which lies buried under thousands of meters of ice high on the Antarctic Plateau, is thought to be home to unique habitats and microorganisms. Confirming the existence of life forms and ...

A graphic shows the location of Lake Vostok and the depth of the subglacial body of water. By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: Reports this week confirm that Russian scientists have penetrated a ...

During the last glacial period - when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offshore than it does today - it has been speculated that subglacial lakes existed beneath it. An ...

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 ...

Lake Vostok, a vast freshwater lake locked in perpetual darkness beneath 4 kilometers of glacial ice in Antarctica, nevertheless harbors life. New measurements of the movement of the lake’s overlying ...

Sergey Bulat of the St. Petersburg Institute for Nuclear Physics, who is leading the research, stood by the claim, first announced in Moscow on March 6, that ice from the subglacial lake harbored ...

After 20 years of drilling, the Russian team raced to chew through the final metres of ice and breached Lake Vostok in time to take the last flight out on February 6 before the onset of Antarctica's ...

After more than a decade of drilling, the team broke through the ice on Feb. 5, reaching a hidden cache of water known as Lake Vostok that has been cut off from the surface since an ice sheet covered ...

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 ...