All Five ‘Letters’ of Life’s Genetic Code Are Found in Asteroid Dust
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It supports the idea that asteroids could have seeded the building blocks of life here, though we still need to figure out how they assembled into actual organisms.
This find suggests the raw materials for DNA and RNA were already present in the early solar system before Earth even formed.