In the summer of 2024, a fragment of the ancient solar system fell through a New Jersey rooftop and into human hands — still fresh, still uncontaminated, still carrying its secrets. The Hillsborough meteorite, preserved almost immediately by the homeowner who found it, offered scientists something rare: organic compounds and amino acids billions of years old, delivered intact from a primitive asteroid that once held flowing water and salt. It is a reminder that the story of life on Earth may have begun not here, but out there, written in chemistry and carried across the void.