Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ... building blocks that make up RNA and DNA. Professor Sara Russell ...

It’s also found in DNA, RNA and other molecules, Hameroff said, so they hope to find evidence of it in the Bennu material. The asteroid material, of course, is not as complex as a neuron.

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One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...