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NASA announced the discovery of "life's ingredients" from samples of the ancient asteroid Bennu, collected by its OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft. The latest discoveries include sugars that are essential for the creation of life forms, ancient "space-gum" never found before on asteroids and supernova dust.

This, along with previous discoveries of amino acids and nucleobases, indicated that the components that make up biological molecules were naturally occurring in the solar system, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's blog post.

"Combined with previous de

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