"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.

Hubble has captured a rare moment where a comet broke into pieces just days after passing the Sun. Scientists say this unexpected event could help explain how comets behave and what they are made of.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most detailed images ever recorded of comets breaking apart in space, offering a direct window into the fragile structure of these ancient icy ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare moment involving the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as it began breaking apart. Events like this are not of.

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 ...

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, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured rare images of a comet as it was breaking apart in November 2025. Credit: NASA / ESA / Dennis Bodewits / Joseph DePasquale For practically as long as NASA's 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 ...

The discovery was entirely accidental. Researchers had originally planned to observe a different comet, but had to switch targets due to technical constraints. What followed surprised even seasoned ...