Japanese Team Lands First-Time Discovery of Building Blocks

For the first time, scientists discover the building blocks of life an asteroid. More than 20 amino acids have been discovered by Japanese researchers on the space rock Ryugu, which is more than 320 million kilometers from Earth.

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