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OSIRIS-REx Found All DNA Letters on Asteroid in Panspermia Breakthrough

Joe Rogan Experience · #2506 - Michelle Thaller · May 28, 2026
OSIRIS-REx Found All DNA Letters on Asteroid in Panspermia Breakthrough
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#2506 - Michelle Thaller
"All of the nucleobases of our DNA, not just little molecules, the letters of our DNA and our RNA are in that sample. We don't think that's a coincidence."
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission discovered all nucleobases used in human DNA and RNA on asteroid Bennu, along with bases not used by Earth life. Thaller called this a profound discovery supporting panspermia theory—that the building blocks of life literally rain down from space on asteroids.
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