Samples from the asteroid Ryugu collected and returned to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission contain all five nitrogenous bases—adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil—that make up nucleic acids, the biomolecules that make life possible on Earth. The study was published today in Nature Astronomy. All the nitrogenous bases found in DNA and RNA—adenine, … Continue reading All DNA/RNA Nucleobases Are Found On Asteroid Ryugu