COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our ...

Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

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In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest that this silence may have been warmer than scientists once believed. Using ...

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In early 2003, Chuck Bennett learned the precise contents of the cosmos. By then, most cosmologists had concluded that the universe contains much more than meets the eye. Observations of pinwheeling ...

In a groundbreaking release,the COSMOS-Web collaboration has unveiled the largest map of the universe, created from data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This extraordinary project ...

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