Planetary scientists have found a wide range of molecules that are crucial for life among a lot of other organic substances present in asteroids, meteors, and even interstellar space. Now, scientists report new insights into asteroid Bennu, which was sampled by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx . The latest research suggests tentative evidence for a substance we have not encountered before in extraterrestrial material. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

When it comes to molecules fundamental to life, we usually focus on the nucleotide bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil, which are the fundamental units of DNA and RNA. There are also amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Although over 500 ar

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