Astromoners find sweet building blocks of life in space! - Page 1

Astronomers have for the first time found a simple sugar, one of the building blocks of life, around a young star. The sugar, called glycoaldehyde, is in the dust disk surrounding the star and would most likely be incorporated into planets as they form.

The finding suggests that at least some of the building blocks of life may have been present when the Earth itself condensed from the dust surrounding our sun, researchers said.

Astronomers find life's sweet building blocks around young star