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

When NASA's Hubble telescope missed its original target, scientists settled for a backup comet instead. What happened next ...

"These ultra-low density planets are rare and they defy conventional understanding of how gas giants form, and if explaining ...

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

"It turns out that they're really cracked too, and that was the missing piece of the puzzle." ...

There's more evidence that water once flowed on Mars with the discovery of an ancient river delta deep below the surface.

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 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.

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 ...

An upcoming book from presenter and author Dallas Campbell collects both iconic and lesser-known images of space, from ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...