Antarctica's Lake Enigma certainly lives up to its name. The permanently ice-covered lake, named for the peculiar cone of debris at its center, was until recently thought to be frozen solid.

Lake Vostok is the largest of 375 or so subglacial lakes in Antarctica. It is also the fourth deepest lake on Earth, with depths reaching 800 meters from the lake’s surface, itself covered by 2 miles ...

Some think the lake may hold micro-organisms in the sediment or bedrock, a discovery that would boost hopes that a similar find could be made on Europa. Categories: Health & Science , Antarctica .

Scientists found liquid water — and, surprisingly, life — at the bottom of a frozen Antarctic lake. The splendidly named Lake Enigma has an average temperature of -14°Celsius (6.8°Fahrenheit ...

Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden beneath the ice — and uncovered a never-before-seen ecosystem —Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ...

Scientists in Australia and the United States are reporting the sudden loss of a large ice-covered Antarctic lake covering an area of eleven square kilometres. The rare event occurred during the ...

The breakthrough—the first retrieval of fully intact liquid samples from a subglacial lake—caps a busy period of Antarctic research, ...

A team of Australian scientists are at the forefront of a groundbreaking mission to solve one of the planet's most pressing ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2015), pp. 1139-1155 (17 pages) Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered lake bounded along its north by the Anuchin glacier. The ...

Lake Vostok is a deep freshwater lake beneath the ice of central East Antarctica; it is one of the five largest lakes on Earth. Siegert and his colleagues, including Professor Martyn Tranter in ...