Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

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Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

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Scientists found essential life-building molecules on asteroid Bennu. Sugars like ribose and glucose, crucial for DNA and RNA ...