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,

NASA study suggests that sunlight penetrating ice on Mars could support photosynthesis and possibly microbial life.

New NASA research suggests that microbes could thrive in meltwater beneath Mars’ frozen surface, offering a potential habitat for life.

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

Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in which to hunt for alien life.

"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface," said researcher Aditya Khuller.

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.

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet's surface.

Pockets of ice on Mars could shield living organisms from radiation that is lethal at the surface, while allowing through enough light to provide the energy to grow and reproduce, a team of astrobiologists claim.