In the summer of 2024, a fireball crossed the northeastern sky and delivered a 115-pound asteroid fragment through the ceiling of a New Jersey home — an intrusion that, by the narrowest margin of chance, harmed no one and instead handed science something rare. The couple who lived there chose silence and meticulous care over spectacle, preserving fragments so pristine that researchers could read within them the ancient chemistry of water, salt, and the molecular ancestors of life. Published two years later in Science Advances, the findings remind us that the universe has long been rehearsing t