{"id":241958,"date":"2026-07-31T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sugar-has-been-discovered-in-space-and-it-could-change-the-search-for-alien-life"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:10:19","slug":"sugar-has-been-discovered-in-space-and-it-could-change-the-search-for-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sugar-has-been-discovered-in-space-and-it-could-change-the-search-for-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"Sugar has been discovered in space and it could change the search for alien life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sugar-has-been-discovered-in-space-and-it-could-change-the-search-for-alien-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found natural sugars floating in interstellar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/space\">space<\/a> \u2013 and it could fundamentally change the search for alien life.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers spotted erythrulose, found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/earth\">Earth<\/a> in raspberries and fake tan, towards the middle of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found natural sugars floating in interstellar space \u2013 and it could fundamentally change the search for alien life. Researchers spotted erythrulose, found on 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}