- Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
Sugars essential to life Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu samples, detailing their findings in the journal Nature Geoscience The five-carbon sugar ribose and, for the first time in an extraterrestrial sample, six-carbon glucose were found
- NASA discovers space gum and sugars crucial to life in asteroid . . .
Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust, offering fresh clues to how life's ingredients formed in the early solar system
- Space gum and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA . . .
The sugars discovered in the asteroid samples, along with other molecules like amino acids previously detected in them, do not necessarily provide evidence of life, NASA said But they do show
- Stardust Found in NASA Bennu Samples: Life’s Molecular Origins Revealed
Stardust found in NASA’s Bennu samples reveals sugars, mysterious polymer, and supernova dust—evidence of life’s molecular building blocks in early solar system Stardust found in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Bennu samples reveals profound discoveries about life’s molecular origins
- Space gum, sugars crucial for life found on Bennu sample, NASA says
Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could
- Sugars, Gum-Like Substance and Stardust Found in Asteroid Bennu. . .
Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, revealed the discovery of a gum-like substance in the Bennu samples
- Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a
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