This MAY be arguably one of the most exciting findings..

Instead of searching for typical “aliens” it may be the micro evidence that tells us a lot.  There is a comet 67P that astronomers have discovered to show some very promising signs in this search for extraterrestrials or other organisms:

In a series of recently published papers in the journal Science, researchers have revealed some of the initial findings from the probe Philae’s landing on the comet 67P, including numerous organic compounds on the surface that are known to contribute to the basic building blocks of life.

Despite some unpredictable events during the Philae probe’s exploration of the comet known as 67P, it has still managed to send back a large amount of valuable data.

Here is some more background on how this was discovered:

Rosetta, the European spacecraft orbiting the comet, is also said to have picked up strange “clusters” of organic material that resemble viral particles.

But neither Rosetta nor its lander probe, Philae, are equipped to search for direct evidence of life after a proposal to include this in the mission was allegedly dismissed.

Astronomer and astrobiologist Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who was involved in planning for the mission 15 years ago, said: “I wanted to include a very inexpensive life-detection experiment. At the time it was thought this was a bizarre proposition.”

This is absolutely incredible and if they did find total proff of aliens or organisms what would be the implications for the solar system and beyond?

thanks to sky.com for this incredible info

Here is a coo rendition of the comet with elements of data from NASA:

Here is another about the discovery with a few more angles including one commenter who thinks this is worth further discussion:

Thank you for addressing the mining..I just remember the discussions of that this is why they were going to the comet/asteroid ..but you do not hear them speaking of any of it now ..just thought i would remind everyone of the discussion years ago..