"Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that's also found in raspberries and self-tanners." "Researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way." The sugar, erythrulose, was identified "in gas form by comparing telescope signals to samples in the lab."
 
"Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they're a key ingredient for life as we know it."
 
"They spotted a cousin to table sugar near the center of the Milky Way about 25 years ago, and black grains from asteroid Bennu retrieved by NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft yielded other sugars, including a key DNA ingredient."