Astronomers have found sugar molecules orbiting a young sun-like star about 400 light-years away. Sugar has been found in space before, but this is the first time it's been found in association with a star similar to the Sun. The star in question is much younger than the Sun, however-- so young that its planetary system is still forming.
Sugar, of course, is one of the building blocks of life. So, if the molecules can somehow eventually make it to the surface of a planet in the habitable zone of that star, life might develop there. The sugar molecules found are about the same distance from their star that Uranus is from the Sun.
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