Ever wondered how cold our planet can really get? Discover where the coldest temperature on Earth was recorded, how ...

Oymyakon, Russia, is the coldest permanently inhabited village on Earth, with official temperatures reaching -67.7 °C.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...