NASA's Sweet Space - Study says sugar molecules found in DNA might be floating in Space

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NASA's new study claims that the sugar molecules which makes the DNA might be floating in deep outer space. The research says that the Sugar molecule Deoxyribose which stands for the "D" in the DNA exist in the far outer space. 

NASA's astrophysicists has created the Sugar molecules in a mimicked version of outer space in the labroratory. According to NASA the sugar molecules might be capable of seeding life on other planets in the cosmos.

"We don't yet know whether life is common in the universe, but we're pretty sure the presence of life's building blocks is not a limiting factor," says Michel Nuevo, a researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center and the lead author of the paper in a press note.

A team at Ames Astrophysics and Astrochemistry Lab was able to simulate a cosmic chamber to mimic the atmosphere found in the deep outer space. In the year 2016, the researchers from France were also able to create Ribose which stands for the "R" in the RNA. 

These complex sugars adds to the growing list of organic compounds which are found on meteorites, including amino acids or the building blocks of proteins, nucleobases or the basic units of the genetic code, and amphiphiles or the molecules used to produce membranes around the cells.

The research states that when the meteroids and comets hit the Earth's surface millions o years ago, the sugar derivatives like sugar acids and suagr alchohols were found in the smaples. The sugar derivatives evolved into RNA and DNA in the presence of water.

This new research has opened too many gateways to explore the reason behind the existence of life on planet Earth.