The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...
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Scientists find mysterious ‘space gum’ ingredients for life on asteroid
Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.
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NASA’s astonishing find on asteroid Bennu breathes sweet, new life into age-old scientific question
Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...
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Mark Kelly hails exciting Bennu discovery linking sugars to RNA origins
Could a dusty rock hurtling through space hold the recipe for life? NASA’s latest analysis of asteroid Bennu’s pristine ...
Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...
Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies within the ...
Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient, ...
Analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu has revealed objects resembling chondrules, though not identical to those found in meteorites, suggesting greater asteroid diversity than previously understood.
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