Scientists find the five building blocks of life on the asteroid Ryugu

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• – Scientists have found adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil on asteroid Ryugu, supporting the theory that these building blocks of life originated from space.
• – The discovery of the five nucleobases on the asteroid strengthens the hypothesis that carbon-rich meteorites brought the genetic code to Earth.
• – The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology analyzed samples from asteroid Ryugu, a relic from the early solar system, to support the extraterrestrial origin of the building blocks of life.