NASA finds life-linked sugars and ‘space gum’ on asteroid Bennu

Talk about a sugar rush!

NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started.

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling through space, some 200 million miles from our planet.

Scientists found ribose — a five-carbon sugar crucial for RNA — and glucose, the six-carbon energy booster that fuels the human existence.

This is the first time ribose has been confirmed in a sample collected directly from an asteroid — though it’s been spotted in a few meteorites before.

Don’t panic — no aliens here. Instead, experts say these sugars are a key ingredient to the origin of life billions of years ago.

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