# Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Apart Only Eight Days After It Started

- slug: hubble-caught-a-comet-breaking-apart-only-eight-days-after-it-started
- date: 2026-03-22
- category: Space & Aerospace

NASA’s Hubble just caught one of the rarest things in comet science: a nucleus coming apart almost in real time.

The object, Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was not even the team’s intended target.

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