Meteorites contain chemicals linked to life

Space rocks could have delivered DNA building blocks to Earth

Scientists have discovered life-related chemicals in nearly a dozen meteorites, the strongest evidence yet that space rocks contain the building blocks of DNA and could have delivered them to Earth.

HINTS OF LIFE Chemists have found that this meteorite, found in Antarctica and dubbed Lonewolf Nunataks 94102, contains nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.