(PhysOrg.com) -- Lake Vostok, an untouched lake in Antarctica, is soon to be reached for the first time. Russian scientists are drilling down to the oxygen-rich lake, which is buried beneath a sheet ...

A group of Russian scientists in Antarctica has succeeded in drilling to a lake buried two miles beneath the icy landmass, the state-run Russian news service Ria Novosti reported -- following a week ...

A team of Russian scientists says it has unearthed the prehistoric subglacial Lake Vostok, two-and-a-half miles below sea level, opening up an ancient and possibly undiscovered world of life below the ...

A first analysis of ice pulled from the largest body of water buried beneath Antarctica has yielded nothing but pristine water, untouched in tens of millions of years. But that doesn’t mean the lake ...

Have you ever heard of Lake Vostok? No, it is not a tony resort outside Moscow. In fact, no one has ever taken a vacation there. It is located under more than two miles of ice not far from the South ...

Europa has a thick crust of ice over an ocean. Lake Vostok, miles beneath the Antarctic ice, is similar. But lessons from one may not apply to the other. NASA image It was a thrill to learn that on ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. First off, some back story. This will end up as a mini-editorial, but some of you will find this very interesting. Lake Vostok is a large (10,000km2), ...

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For 14 million years, Antarctica’s vast Lake Vostok has remained tantalizingly sealed off from the rest of the world, hidden under 4 kilometers of ice. What unique forms of life might have evolved in ...