What type of cult is heaven's gate?

Heaven's Gate was a religious cult founded in the 1970s by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, combining elements of Christianity and New Age beliefs. The group taught that Earth was about to be "recycled" and that members could transcend to a higher evolutionary level by leaving their physical bodies. This culminated in a mass suicide in 1997, where members believed they would join a spacecraft following the comet Hale-Bopp. The cult's teachings emphasized ascension, separation from the material world, and the pursuit of a higher existence.