According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists analyzing samples from the Hayabusa2 mission have confirmed that all five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu. This is a fairly big deal as it’s the clearest evidence yet found that the raw ingredients for […] The post Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe? appeared first on VICE .