A network of ancient subglacial basins stretching across much of East Antarctica has been identified and mapped at continent ...

Beneath the coldest, most remote plateau on Earth, a body of freshwater roughly the size of Lake Ontario has remained cut off ...

A massive, semi-continent-sized subsurface structure has been discovered by scientists beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface.

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 ...

An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden ...

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure.

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 ...

After much controversy and an array of scientific challenges, researchers are finally ready to confirm that life in Lake Vostok doesn't just exist -- it thrives. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

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, ...

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MOSCOW (AP) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) of ice, ...