Astronomers Look Inside Meteorites and Find the Sugars Needed for Life

Discover Magazine - Fri 22 Nov 19

The discovery shows that the organic compounds needed for life can form in lifeless environments, like on asteroids and the early Earth.

Astronomers look inside meteorites and find the sugars needed for life, Astronomy.com - Fri 22 Nov 19

Ribose, a sugar needed for life, has been detected in meteorites

ScienceNews - Fri 22 Nov 19

Samples of rocks that fell to Earth contain a key molecular ingredient of RNA, part of life’s genetic machinery.

First detection of sugars in meteorites gives clues to origin of life

Phys.org - Tue 19 Nov 19

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2019/sugars-in-meteorites

First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life, Astrobiology Magazine - Sat 23 Nov 19
First detection of sugars in meteorites gives clues to origin of life, SpaceDaily - Wed 20 Nov 19

Ice fossils discovered in 4.6B year-old asteroid that could give new insight into early solar system

FOXNews - Mon 25 Nov 19

Researchers have found ice fossils from an ancient asteroid that crashed into Earth nearly 30 years ago that could have enormous implications into what the early Solar System was like.

Your RNA May Have Come from Space, Meteor Study Suggests

SPACE.com - Mon 25 Nov 19

Scientists have detected ribose and other bioessential sugars in ancient meteorite samples for the first time, suggesting that RNA may have come from space and played a crucial role in the origins ...

Your RNA May Have Come from Space, Meteor Study Suggests, Livescience - Thu 21 Nov 19

Meteorites contain extraterrestrial ribose

CandEN - Sat 23 Nov 19

Complex sugars found in rocky meteorites hint at origins of life on early Earth

NASA finds sugars on meteorites for first time in a step for theory that life evolved from Asteroids

Daily Mail - Thu 21 Nov 19

NASA says that they've found the first evidence of sugars on meteorite specimens which adds to a growing body of evidence that their parent objects, Asteroids, carry building blocks for life.

Scientists Find Sugar in Meteorites, Now Let Me Lick Them

Gizmodo - Thu 21 Nov 19

Researchers found evidence of sugar molecules in primitive meteorites, according to a new study. Now, if you please, I would like to taste the rocks.Read more...

NASA finds 'extraterrestrial sugar' on meteorites, which may have 'led to the origin of life'

FOXNews - Wed 20 Nov 19

It's common for asteroids in the Solar System to carry water, one of the essential building blocks for life. But now, NASA researchers have found sugar molecules on two different meteorites, ...

Sugars essential to life detected in meteorites, a first

UPI - Tue 19 Nov 19

For the first time, scientists have identified sugars essential to life inside meteorites.

Sugar delivered to Earth from space

Newswise - Thu 21 Nov 19

Researchers from Tohoku University, Hokkaido University, JAMSTEC, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center investigated meteorites and found ribose and other sugars.

Sugar delivered to Earth from space, Science Blog - Thu 21 Nov 19
Sugar delivered to Earth from space, Eurekalert - Thu 21 Nov 19

First evidence of bio-essential sugars in meteorites

ScienceDaily - Thu 21 Nov 19

A new study has discovered meteorites containing RNA sugar, ribose, and other bio-important sugars; the first direct evidence of bio-essential sugars' delivery from space to the Earth.