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STORY: Did the ingredients for life on Earth come from space?

Scientists say two key ingredients for life on Earth: uracil and niacin

were detected in rocks retrieved from asteroid Ryugu

The samples were obtained by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft in 2019

Scientists long have pondered about the conditions necessary for life to arise on Earth

The new findings support the hypothesis that bodies like comets, asteroids and meteorites

that bombarded early Earth billions of years ago

seeded the young planet with compounds that helped pave the way for the first microbes

REUTERS / JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST / Kyushu University/Hokkaido University/ JAMSTEC / JAXA / ISAS / JAXA