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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Scientists from Japan have found the last piece of the puzzle that supports the idea of extraterrestrial life such as bacteria and cells.

This Tuesday, researchers released a publication about their findings from asteroid fragments brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

The vehicle launched in 2016, made contact and collected samples from asteroid "Bennu" in 2018, and returned to Earth in 2023.

Scientists now know that samples from Bennu contain ribose and glucose, simple sugars that are fundamental to building and sustaining life as we know it.

Evidence from the journal publication tells us that asteroids hundreds of millions of miles awa

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