All Ingredients For Life Found On Space Rocks

A team led by Associate Professor Yasuhiro Oba of Hokkaido University in Japan has found all five ingredients of life on meteorites.

A study published earlier this week discovered that all five crucial "ingredients" needed to build DNA can be found on asteroids, supporting a hypothesis that the seeds of life could have been literally transported to Earth from space.

According to an article published (pdf given below) this week in the peer-reviewed Nature Communications journal, a gro...

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