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Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Bio-Essential Sugars in Samples from Asteroid Bennu


Researchers have analyzed an extract from a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and identified several bio-essential sugars, including ribose (RNA sugar) and glucose (metabolism substrate).

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