Scientists Just Found Sugar Thousands of Light-Years From Earth. Here’s What That Means for Alien Life.

We’ve spent decades wondering if there’s complex alien life out here and whether it’ll be terrifying invaders or sweet and friendly like E.T. While we wait for either one of them to show up, we did end up finding something literally sweet: sugar. Specifically, erythrulose, a naturally occurring sugar found in raspberries and other foods,…