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

And now it's 250 million miles away.

This series of Hubble Space Telescope images of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1 for short, was taken over the course of three consecutive days: November 8, 9, and 10, 2025. Captured by ...

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most detailed images ever recorded of comets breaking apart in space, ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have released a new view of the Cat’s Eye Nebula using Hubble and Euclid telescopes, revealing complex gas shells ...

Astronomers combined Hubble's small-scale details of stellar death with Euclid's wide view of cosmic environments to take a closer look at the iconic Cat's Eye Nebula.

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