sugary meteorites

Sugars in meteorites – go to http://phys.org/print385786331.html … a paper published in PNAS (June 2016) has been looking at carbonaceous meteorites – so called chemical time capsules. It is assumed they formed at the beginning of the universe (following Big Bang). Researchers from NASA have analysed sugar acids and sugar alcahols in meteorites. The paper describes the research and its conclusions