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Mar 22, 2023

Key Ingredients for Life Found in Sample Retrieved from Near-Earth Asteroid

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We may owe a debt of gratitude to the primordial asteroids that visited Earth billions of years ago.


Hayabusa2 ferried pristine asteroid samples to Earth in 2020. A new study reveals they contain uracil, a key life building block.

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