Explore Alliance Presents: How Do You KNOW? Episode 45 - Discovering Nucleotide Bases in Asteroids | Space Exploration Documentary & Educational Science Series for Astronomy Enthusiasts

In 2019, NASA announced that an international team had found sugars essential to life in meteorites. The discovery added to the growing list of biologically important compounds that have been found in meteorites, supporting the hypothesis that chemical reactions in asteroids – the parent bodies of many meteorites – can make some of life’s ingredients.

Daniel Barth focuses on how asteroids may have delivered nucleotides that assisted in the rise of life here on Earth.