In a new study, researchers are suggesting something radical: that the Red Planet may be hosting life under its icy exterior. Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are positing that Mars' water ice deposits,

Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in exposed layers of dusty ice? Scientists say such places are worth checking out.

NASA researchers have proposed that beneath Mars’ frozen surface, meltwater pools could potentially support microbial life. Using computer models, scientists believe that sunlight filtering through dusty ice could create the right conditions for photosynthesis to occur in shallow subsurface water.