Scientists crack open space dirt from asteroid Ryugu and—bam—find every single Lego piece needed for DNA and RNA: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, uracil, the full set. Hayabusa2 basically played cosmic delivery service, proving asteroids might’ve sprinkled life’s starter kit across Earth billions of years ago. No aliens needed; just rocks with better chemistry skills than your high-school lab partner.
Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks