NASA experiment shows DNA sugars could be floating around in space

So far, Earth is the only place in the universe that we know for sure is home to life, but there's evidence that its chemical building blocks may start stacking up in space. Now, NASA astrophysicists have managed to create DNA sugars in a vacuum chamber that simulates interstellar space, and in follow-up studies found other sugar derivatives in meteorite samples.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Astronomy
• DNA
• Evolution
• interstellar space
• Life
• Molecules
• NASA

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