In the summer of 2024, a fragment of the ancient solar system fell through the roof of a New Jersey home, carrying within it amino acids, salt-rich brines, and organic compounds that predate life on Earth. Scientists have since identified it as only the second observed fall of a rare CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite — a class of meteorite so primitive it may preserve the very chemistry that seeded life on a young planet. The discovery does not prove that life arrived from space, but it deepens the case that the ingredients did, delivered across billions of years by wandering rocks from the asteroi