Everything needed to make #DNA and #RNA found in #asteroid sample
Results from #Ryugu suggest the Solar System produced the building blocks of life
As outlined in a paper titled “A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu” that appeared in the journal Nature #Astronomy this week, analysis of samples from Ryugu turned up “all five canonical nucleobases – purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil).”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/everything_needed_to_make_dna/