- Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
A team of Japanese and US scientists have discovered the bio-essential sugars ribose and glucose in samples of asteroid Bennu that were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission This finding builds on the earlier discovery of nucleobases (the genetic components of DNA and RNA), phosphate, and amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) in the Bennu samples, showing that the molecular
- Space gum and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA . . .
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say
- 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
- Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid
NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4 6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the
- 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
- NASA discovers area gum and sugars essential to life in asteroid . . .
Scientists have detected a number of sugars important for all times within the samples introduced again from asteroid Bennu, NASA introduced on Tuesday (Dec 2) Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a workforce led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku College in Japan discovered ribose, an important constructing block of RNA, and
- NASA’s Bennu asteroid holds secrets of life: Discovery of sugars . . .
Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and glucose Scientists also found a unique nitrogen-rich polymer, offering
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