August 9, 2011

Complex organic molecules found in meteorites (artist concept NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith)

At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center a new research have been carried out on twelve carbon-rich meteorites finding adenine and guanine, two nucleobases which are DNA components, but also nucleobases analogs such as 2,6-diaminopurine and 6,8-diaminopurine.