Photo: Alberto Behar/JPL/ASU Under a half-mile of Antarctic ice, there's a cold and dark lake sealed off from the rest of the world for hundreds of years - and when scientists drilled through,...

Around boiling undersea hydrothermal vents? Inside...  ...ay not seem compatible to life to you and me, but extremophiles love 'em.Scientists have discovered yet another u...

Sinkholes can develop on the floor of the Great La...  ...e-rich, hypoxic environment supports a variety of extremophile organisms.Now, researchers are discovering that t...  ...ntarctica. Others are functionally similar to the extremophile bacteria living on the black smokers of the deep...