Antarctica’s Vostok Station holds the recognized record for the lowest air temperature measured on Earth, roughly minus 128 ...

During the 68th Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the assembly of three of the five modules of the new wintering complex at the Vostok station was completed.

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, as he participated ...

Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit). If the team does reach the lake water, they will bring its water up through the hole ...

The coldest place on Earth is a bone-chilling research station where temperatures have plummeted to a teeth-chattering low of -89C, with only 30 people living there. While the planet's hottest spot ...

At Vostok station, scientists from the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute began testing meteorological equipment to launch automated observations at the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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