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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found sugars essential for biology on asteroid Bennu. These sugars, along with previously found components, indicate that the building blocks for life's molecules were ...

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The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected the samples in February 2019, and delivered them to Earth in December 2020Credit: EPA The Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved the samples ...