“Martian ice exposures are probably one of the most accessible places we should be looking” for life on the red planet, according to the paper’s lead author, Aditya Khuller of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

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

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,

Aditya Khuller, a Research Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spilled the cosmic tea in an interview with Space.com. He explained how Mars is a bit of a rebel—unlike Earth, it doesn’t have a protective ozone layer,

The study, which is published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, focused on water ice formed from ancient snow mixed with dust during Martian ice ages. Researchers found that dark dust particles within the ice could absorb sunlight,