It's a tantalizing possibility.
"One of the most striking things our team has found is that, given recent research on the ranges in which certain microbial life can survive, there may be potentially habitable niches for such life in relatively protected areas on some airless bodies," Prabal Saxena, a planetary researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told the site.Said microbial life could be harbored by the lunar south pole's permanently shadowed craters.
Saxena and his team recently presented research at a workshop about these potential landing sites, arguing that we should consider the possibility of microbial life surviving on the Moon. While experts have pointed out that organic molecules could very well have made their way through space via meteors, there's no guarantee microbes could survive the trip.
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