NASA in alien life BREAKTHROUGH after DNA discovery

And this week’s announcement is a huge breakthrough, as the study has has created such a molecule.

Lori Glaze, acting director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division said: “Life detection is an increasingly important goal of NASA’s planetary science missions, and this new work will help us to develop effective instruments and experiments that will expand the scope of what we look for.”

The new research saw scientists create a new kind of molecule system that functions like DNA, but has an important difference.

Instead of DNA’s usual four ingredients, the NASA scientists have created one containing eight.

It has all of the four that are found in life on Earth: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.

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