Want to know how cold Earth can get? Find out where the coldest temperature ever recorded was measured, how scientists captured and verified the data, and why this extraordinary weather record ...

More than four decades ago, scientists in Antarctica recorded a temperature so extreme it still stands as the coldest ever measured on Earth. Even today, no weather station has come close to beating ...

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 ...

Contrast Dhaka winters with the extreme freezing conditions of Siberia and Antarctica. While Panchagarh recorded 2.6°C, ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, 28 January (BelTA) - The new complex of the Vostok station in Antarctica will become a major venue for scientific programs of Belarus and Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said ...

India shivers as a cold wave grips the north, but extreme temperatures elsewhere are truly astonishing. Antarctica's Vostok Station holds the official record at -89.2°C, while Siberia's Oymyakon is ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...