Located approximately 2.5 miles beneath Russia’s Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), which sits at 3,488 metres above mean sea level, lies the largest of the continent’s 675 ...

Join science writer Richard Stone and learn more about how scientists plan to do this and what life is like working at the Russian's Vostok Research Station. "The weather and tales of hardship ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that his country’s southernmost Vostok research station in Antarctica is “one of the most modern and well-equipped” in the continent ...

At the continent’s Vostok Station, less than 1,000 miles from the South Pole, Russian researchers were able to grow eight watermelons in conditions not well suited to the summertime snack ...