A meteorite that struck a New Jersey home in 2024 has carried ancient secrets across the solar system and into human hands — amino acids, organic compounds, and the chemical traces of primordial water, all preserved inside a fragment of one of the oldest families of asteroids. Scientists have traced the rock, now called Hillsborough, to the Erigone asteroid belt, where brines once flowed and altered minerals billions of years before Earth knew life. The discovery deepens a long-held suspicion: that the ingredients of life were not born here, but delivered — and that the cosmos has been seeding