Scientists have found natural sugars floating in interstellar space – and it could fundamentally change the search for alien life.
Researchers spotted erythrulose, found Earth in raspberries and fake tan, towards the middle of our galaxy.
It could help answer one of the biggest questions about the origins of life on Earth, and how it could have formed elsewhere in the universe.
Sugars are central to living organisms: they are the backbone of the DNA and RNA that makes us up, and help power key biological processes. Researchers also think they would have played a key role in the beginning of life.
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