{"id":1288,"date":"2026-04-03T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:20:15","slug":"lifes-building-blocks-are-coming-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/lifes-building-blocks-are-coming-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Building Blocks are coming from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cosmology, Biology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date : April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Science Alert<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/panspermia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1289\" style=\"width:460px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Analysing carbon-rich meteorites found in Australia (1969), Kentuky (1950) and British Columbia (2000), a team of researchers have identified nucleobases like purines and pyrimidines which were not detected previously in meteorites. These nucleobases participates to the building of the structural backbone of DNA and RNA. Such organics are considered to have play an important r\u00f4le in the chemical evolution of the Earth\u2019s primordial stage (4 billion years ago). This is another sign of the <a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/life-on-earth-brought-by-comets\/\">Panspermia theory<\/a> early last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <em>Science Alert <\/em>article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the scientific paper on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-29612-x\">Nature<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmology, Biology Date : April, 2021 Source : Science Alert Analysing carbon-rich meteorites found in Australia (1969), Kentuky (1950) and British Columbia (2000), a team of researchers have identified nucleobases like purines and pyrimidines which were not detected previously in meteorites. These nucleobases participates to the building of the structural backbone of DNA and RNA. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/lifes-building-blocks-are-coming-from-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life&#8217;s Building Blocks are coming from Space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[99,211,212],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-space-sciences","tag-dna","tag-panspermia","tag-rna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}