Meteorites are among the most compelling natural visitors to Earth. Across history, they have been interpreted through religious, cultural, and scientific lenses, with records of meteorite falls offering rare insight into how societies understood events beyond the sky. These accounts also reveal how such falls shaped local beliefs, politics, and worldviews.

In recent years, sample-return missions by space agencies have transformed meteorite research. Pristine material brought back from asteroids has been shown to closely match meteorites recovered on Earth, strengthening the link between laboratory samples and cosmic origins. Cutting-edge studies have also identified organic compounds in meteorites that resemble the molecular building blocks of DNA and RNA, findings with profound implications for our understanding of how life may have emerged.

As recovery efforts expand and analytical techniques advance, discoveries are accelerating. Meteorites are no longer just relics of cosmic history; they are active clues in an unfolding story about the origins of planets, chemistry, and life itself.

Our aim is to slow the narrative and create a moment of pause, a space to reflect on what meteorites once meant and what they represent today. To examine some of those fragments with care, scientific, cultural, and historical, and to help these extraterrestrial visitors find their place within our world. In doing so, they help us better understand our own. The same sensibility settles gently into the lines of The Meteorite by C. S. Lewis.