Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time. During its routine imaging of the universe, the space telescope spotted an unexpected object called C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or comet K1 for short. Remarkably, Hubble's observations revealed that the comet's nucleus was actively fragmenting, according to a statement from NASA. "Sometimes the best science happens by accident," John Noonan, co-author of the study and physics professor at Auburn University, said in the statement. "This comet [was] observed because our original comet was not viewable due to some new technical constraints after we won our proposal.…