A new study has found that uracil, one of the building blocks necessary to form RNA and vitamin B3 (an essential cofactor for metabolism in terrestrial life), has been detected in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
According to the research, this could mean carbon-rich asteroids brought nucleobases like uracil to Earth from an extraterrestrial origin.
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