Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft
After successfully rendezvousing with near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 and sending a sampled cache of rocks back…
All five canonical nucleobases used in DNA and RNA detected in Ryugu samples
All five canonical nucleobases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil, have been identified in pristine samples returned from…
All 5 ‘letters’ of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?
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Asteroid Ryugu Offers Key Insight Into the Origins of Life on Earth
A study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy presents evidence that the asteroid Ryugu contains all…