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

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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope had a lucky day last year, just happening to capture the rare breakup of a comet for the first time.

The researchers had initially selected a different target for Hubble.

In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that ...

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

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.

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