Here is another excerpt about this exciting discovery:

Ancestral material

Prof Ian Wright of the Open University, who leads another instrument, Ptolemy, said the results were “really interesting”.

“I see this cometary material that we’re analysing as frozen primordial soup. It’s the kind of stuff that if you had it, and warmed it up somehow, and put it in the right environment, with the right conditions, you may eventually get life forming out of it.

“What we may be looking at here is our abiological ancestral material – this is stuff that went into the mix to produce life.

“In many ways it’s quite a humbling thing to be working on, because this is life before life happened.”

In a sense this is a more reasonable way to search for evidence of life then sending out messages light years out through something like the S.E.T.I. program.  It is so much closer that maybe one day we could get a rock sample.

And the video below has a lot of awesome pics of this comet!

thanks to bbc news for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic