Image courtesy of NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/ Caltech) et al.
Joel Kontinen
Researches have
found sugar molecules in a cosmic cloud nearly 27light i yeas from us, The ones who believe in
panspermia or that life could arise on other planets, suppose that asteroids brought
them to earth.
Sugar
molecules have been found in interstellar space for the first time. The finding
adds further evidence to the idea that early life on Earth may have benefited
from complex sugar molecules arriving from elsewhere.
Sugars
arise from chemical bonds among carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Besides serving as
an energy source, certain sugars are fundamental building blocks of RNA and
DNA, the genetic material found in every living cell. However, there has long
been a chicken-and-egg problem: living organisms make sugars with enzymes, but
experiments recreating conditions on pre-life Earth have yielded relatively
few.
Source:
Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2026 Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time | New Scientist13 July
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