""Their detection in Ryugu strongly supports their ubiquity in the solar system," coauthor and Hokkaido University post-doctoral researcher Yasuhiro Oba told New Scientist."
"The news comes after NASA scientists revealed last year that dust samples from a separate asteroid, dubbed Bennu, collected by its OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft in October 2020, similarly contained the building blocks of life."
"While the latest findings suggest Ryugu's samples contain all nucleobases - including uracil, adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine - required to build life, this "does not mean that life existed on Ryugu," lead author Toshiki Koga told Agence."
Hayabusa2, a Japanese spacecraft, collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu, revealing it contains all five primary nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. This discovery supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Researchers found uracil, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine in the samples. While these findings are significant, they do not imply that life ever existed on Ryugu itself, according to the lead researcher.
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