NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said.

For practically as long as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, astronomers have wanted to use it to see a comet ...

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 ...

A last-minute target switch led researchers to Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), which Hubble then watched split into at least four pieces.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

NASA and ESA have released new images from the Hubble Space Telescope of a comet breaking up as it exits the solar system, captured as part of study recently published in the journal Icarus. The ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...

In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings are ...

Two telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing how a dying star shed layers of material in violent ...

A chance change in plans helped the Hubble Space Telescope capture an uncommon event in November 2025: a comet breaking apart.