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 ...
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.
A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a collision" ...