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Scientists find billion-year-old meteorites that contained sugar

Scientists at NASA have discovered that some meteorites that landed on Earth billions of years ago contained sugars. These sugars contained chemicals that would have been essential for the creation of life. This is the first real evidence that these chemicals existed out in space and that extraterrestrial chemicals could have contributed to the creation of life.

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