Asteroid shock: Did meteorites packed with sugar kick-start life on Earth?

“These results will help guide our analyses of pristine samples from primitive asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, to be returned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.”

The profound puzzle regarding the origin of life is how biology could have first been created from non-biological chemical processes.

DNA is the template for life, carrying the instructions for how to build and operate a living organism.

And RNA also carries information, with researchers think it first evolved and only later replaced by DNA.

source: express.co.uk