"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI) said in a statement: ”A new winter complex has been put into operation at ...

The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at Antarctica's Lake Vostok stopped on Feb. 5 at a depth of 3,720.47 meters. The operation had to be halted so that the ...

Other scientists had tried to delve into Antarctica’s hidden realm ... And a Russian project aimed at Lake Vostok retrieved samples bathed in kerosene from the drilling process ...

Current local time in Vostok (Antarctica/Vostok timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/Vostok time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

Two Russian ships: the Vostok and the Mirny are claimed by some ... with some facts about the the coldest place on Earth. Antarctica was first sighted by humans just 200 years ago.

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts have become the first humans to orbit Earth via its poles, capturing images of the Arctic and ...