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

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

NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was caught fragmenting ...

The researchers had initially selected a different target for Hubble.

Images were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which was meant to be observing a different comet ...

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

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 ...

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.

A NASA telescope has accidentally captured a stunning moment that astronomers thought that they would never see ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.