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All Five DNA Building Blocks Found on Asteroid Ryugu for the First Time
Something extraordinary arrived on Earth in December 2020, sealed inside a capsule that had traveled millions of kilometers through space. JAXA’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft delivered 5.4 grams of dust collected from the surface of asteroid Ryugu, a carbon-rich body orbiting between Earth and Mars. Scientists had already found organic molecules in earlier analyses of that dust,…