NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth

'Space gum,' sugars crucial for life found on Bennu sample, NASA says

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life began in our solar system.

Glucose found on asteroid

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Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid

‘We’re looking at events near the beginning of the beginning’

"Space gum" and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA reveals

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say.

Scientists find mysterious ‘space gum’ ingredients for life on asteroid

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

In a First, NASA Scientists Find Life-Critical Sugars, ‘Gum,’ And Stardust in Asteroid Bennu

For the first time in an extraterrestrial sample, scientists detected ribose, which is a five-carbon sugar vital for RNA, and glucose, the six-carbon sugar that powers cells on Earth.