Asteroid Bennu: NASA detects life-linked sugars, mysterious ‘space gum’ and ancient stardust

Sugars essential for DNA and RNA
According to a team of scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan, samples brought back from Bennu contain five-carbon sugar ribose. Also, for the first time, a sample collected from outer spac…

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