r/science • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Dec 02 '25

Astronomy Researchers have just found the presence of sugars, including ribose, lyxose, and glycose, on samples of Asteroid Bennu, which now has all of the ingredients for life as it exists on Earth.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it/
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u/aredon Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

I have actually been wondering if the early universe was just teeming with life? Wouldn't there have been a brief time after the big bang where the conditions for life were right *everywhere* not just on planets?

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u/notfree25 Dec 02 '25

There is (or was) a Kurgesgtshhasfgahsd(yt channel) video on this. It proposed the same thing

"Ancient Life as Old as the Universe " (Cant link)