In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings published Wednesday in the journal Icarus. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)—not to be confused with interstellar comet […]
Category:
Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Comets, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, Small Bodies of the Solar System, The Solar System
Posted on
March 18, 2026
Sign up for our newsletter:
Categories
100
14
3
186
136
14
1
1
3
1
2
7
10
1
1
1
16
361
1
21
6
17
386
1
10
1
14
403
11
3
58
1
2
34
3
2
3
2
1
1
4
4
1
21
45
38
2
29
2
7
1
6
232
5
1
6
1
278
1
133
1
10
62
7
17
10
33
12
18
10
34
69
1
22
5
1
3
11
3
4
27
10
18
19
9
1
112
1
2
11
1
4
14
1
54
15
385
41
26
19
35
1
6
657
48
1
13
221
1
1
6
13
8
7
18
6
1
1
17
2
6
170
1
112
40
3
17
1
46
10
1
3
3
151
29
202
3
107
67
36
11
1
105
299
2
208
3
6
30
4
46
46
54
1
1
1
10
2
11
2
3
2
1
13
1
30
1
45
5
370
3
141
47
1
95
13
113
1
2
1
11
159
4
14
3
19
3
2
2
Blog Posts
APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones
September 20, 2026
APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night
September 19, 2026
NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
September 18, 2026