Scientists say they have completed the first experiment on growing watermelons in the coldest place on Earth. August is the coldest winter month at the arctic station Vostok, when temperatures average ...

ST. PETERSBURG, 28 January (BelTA) - Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are attending a ceremony to launch a new wintering complex at the Vostok station in ...

From Antarctic research stations to remote Siberian towns, these places redefine the meaning of cold.

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 ...

At Vostok Station in Antarctica, July means miserably low temperatures, almost perpetual darkness and all the other inconveniences of an Antarctic winter. But this winter brought Russian scientists ...

Scientists from the United States, France and Russia will equally share samples of an 11.7-meter (38.5-foot) ice core taken from the ice sheet above Lake Vostok, deep in the Antarctic interior, under ...

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 ...

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, ...