Asteroid Samples Brought to Earth Contain Key Molecules for Life - Gizmodo

They're the first organic molecules recovered from an asteroid in space. The Hayabusa2 mission visited asteroid Ryugu from 2018 to 2019.

Japans education ministry says that more than 20 types of amino acids were detected in samples of an asteroid that were brought to Earth in December 2020, The Japan Times reports. The detection is th… [+2751 chars]

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