The basic ingredients for life have been found around a second extrasolar planet, scientists reported Tuesday.
Although the planet itself is not habitable by life as we know it, the discovery could mean that the basic components of life are widespread in the atmospheres of many kinds of exoplanets.
The new find was made by training both the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes on HD 209458b, a hot Jupiter that orbits very close to its sunlike star. It’s located 150 light years away in the Pegasus constellation. In December of last year, Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Mark Swain and his team found a similar Jupiter-like planet, HD 189733b, with carbon dioxide in its atmosphere.
“Detecting organic compounds in two exoplanets now raises the possibility that it will become commonplace to find planets with molecules that may be tied to life,” Swain said in a press release.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/life-ingredients-exoplanet/Apparently this planet is also unofficially known as
Osiris 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_209458_b
