Scientists just found the full "recipe of life" inside an asteroid. The asteroid Ryugu has revealed something extraordinary. From just 5.4 grams of material returned by Hayabusa2, researchers identified all five nucleobases essential for life: Adenine Guanine Cytosine. Thymine Uracil These are the core building blocks of DNA and #RNA . This is the first time a single space object has been found to contain a complete and balanced set of these molecules.
What does this mean? It strongly supports the idea that asteroids and meteorites delivered life's ingredients to early Earth. Ryugu likely formed from a water-rich parent body, where complex chemistry unfolded over millions of years-creating the conditions needed for these molecules to form. While we still don't know how life itself began... this discovery suggests the chemistry of life is not rare-it's cosmic. The ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe. $SC
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