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 proof of aliens or organisms what would be the implications for the solar system and beyond?

Check back for updates as this story develops and they get more data.

thanks to sky.com for this incredible info