A gorgeous photo of frozen methane bubbles trapped in ice within the deepest lake on earth has gone viral. The picture— taken by photographer Kristina Makeeva and also shared by NASA—shows ...

From a distance, the bubbles give the impression of something moving in the middle of the lake. Prehistoric animals in Elgygytyn Lake. ... Lake Svetloyar is one of Russia’s most mysterious lakes.

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia ...

A radar satellite image shows smooth ice over the surface of Lake Vostok, over 3.5 kilometres down Update: Russian scientists have now confirmed that they have indeed breached Lake Vostok.