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

This diagram shows the path Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1, took as it swung past the sun and began its journey out of the ...

A look at Edwin Hubble’s role in confirming that the Andromeda Galaxy lies beyond the Milky Way, helping expand our ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

"Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” Co-investigator John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said in a statement.

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

Space scientists have captured a comet breaking into pieces by accident. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the incredibly rare event while searching for another cosmic target. The comet K1, ...

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 ...

The breakup of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, opens a window into how fragile comet nuclei evolve and collapse.

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

What Looked Like a Planet Was Actually a Massive Space Collision So, imagine astronomers are looking at something, thinking, ‘Wow, cool planet!’ Then, bam! Turns out it wasn’t a planet at all, but a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of a comet breaking apart that could offer new insights into the early days of the universe.