3I/ATLAS Is Carrying Ingredients for Life, NASA Finds

Methanol has long been considered a basic building block of life as we know it: the molecule plays a crucial role in producing the proteins and amino acids that make up DNA and RNA, upon which all known life is based. Its discovery in other parts of the solar system — and even — has therefore been met with immense excitement by the scientific community. Now, add another intriguing location where scientists have detected the fascinating molecule: in recent readings from 3I/ATLAS, the