The Japan Times reports that the country's education ministry has discovered the first evidence of key life molecules existing on asteroids in space after detecting over 20 amino acids in an asteroid sample brought back in 2020. It has implications for determining and understanding such vital molecules reached Earth.
The samples were from the asteroid Ryugu, about 200 million miles from Earth, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft when it landed in 2019. The mission was able to bring back about 5.4 grams of samples from the subsurface and surface of the asteroid.
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