Cosmos The cosmos (, ; ) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word ''cosmos'' implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. The cosmos is studied in cosmologya broad discipline covering ...

generally refers to an orderly or harmonious system. Cosmos or Kosmos may also refer to:

Space

* ''

Cosmos 1 Cosmos 1 was a project by Cosmos Studios and The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space. As part of the project, an uncrewed solar-sail spacecraft named ''Cosmos 1'' was launched into space at 19:46:09 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC ...

'', a privately funded solar sail spacecraft project *

Cosmic Evolution Survey The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Project to survey a two square degree equatorial field with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The largest survey ever undertaken by HST, the project incorpora ...

(COSMOS), a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Project *

Kosmos (rocket family) The Kosmos (also spelled Cosmos, Russian language, Russian: ) rockets were a series of Soviet Union, Soviet and subsequently Russian rockets, derived from the R-12 Dvina, R-12 and R-14 Chusovaya, R-14 missiles, the best known of which is the Kos ...

, a series of Soviet/Russian rockets *

Kosmos (satellite) Kosmos (, , meaning ) is a designation given to many satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia. Kosmos 1, the first spacecraft to be given a Kosmos designation, was launched on 16 March 1962. History The first Soviet sat ...

, a series of Soviet/Russian satellites *

Universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from s ...

, synonymous with cosmos *

COSMOS field The COSMOS field, or the Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field, is a stitched photograph of deep space, which was photographed with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in segments from 2003 to 2005, and was supported by several ...

, an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

Places

* Cosmos, Minnesota, United States * Cosmos, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *

Kosmos, South Africa Kosmos is a village in the North West Province of South Africa. It is situated on the western bank of the Hartbeespoort Dam. History The first homes were built in the 1920s shortly after the Dam was constructed. It is thought that the name derives ...

, a village in North West Province * Kosmos, Washington, an unincorporated community in Washington, United States

Books

* ''Cosmos'' (serial novel), a 17-chapter serial novel published in ''Science Fiction Digest'' (later ''Fantasy Magazine'') in 1933 - 1934 * ''Cosmos'' (Humboldt book), a scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt * ''Cosmos'' (Gombrowicz novel), a 1965 novel by Witold Gombrowicz * ''Cosmos'' (Sagan book), a 1980 book by Carl Sagan based on the documentary series * ''The Kosmos Trilogy'', a series of philosophy books by

Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American theorist and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which purports to encompass all human knowledge and experience. Starting publishing ...

* ''Cosmos'' (Onfray book), a 2015 book by Michel Onfray

Journals

* ''Cosmos'' (Australian magazine), an Australian popular science magazine * ''COSMOS'' (journal), the scientific journal of the Singapore National Academy of Science * '' Cosmos: A Journal of Emerging Issues'', an annual essay collection published by the Cosmos Club, 1990–2004 * ''Cosmos. Problems of Biological Sciences'' (originally ''Kosmos. Problemy Nauk Biologicznych''), the scientific journal of the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists * '' Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy'', a four-isuue science fiction magazine edited by David G. Hartwell in 1977

Comics

* Cosmo, a Fairy Godparent from ''

The Fairly OddParents ''The Fairly OddParents'' is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy with two Fairy godmother, fairy godparents named List of The Fai ...

'' animated series * Cosmo, a plant character from the ''

Sonic X is a Japanese anime television series based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series. Produced by TMS Entertainment under partnership with Sega and Sonic Team, and directed by Hajime Kamegaki, ''Sonic X'' initially ran for 52 ep ...

'' animated series * ''Cosmos'' (manga), a manga series * COSMOS (''Spriggan''), an organization in the anime ''Spriggan'' * Cosmos (''Transformers'') * Cosmos, a character and deity in the video game ''

Dissidia Final Fantasy is a 2008 fighting game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign for the ''Final Fantasy'' series's 20th anniversary. It was released in Japan on December 18, 2008, in North America on August 2 ...

'' (2008) * Cosmos, a supercomputer in the book ''

George's Secret Key to the Universe ''George's Secret Key to the Universe'' is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy Hawking, Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard. Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews, and was followed by five sequels, ''George's Cosmic T ...

'' (2007) *

Kosmos (Marvel Comics) The Beyonder () is a fictional cosmic entity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Jim Shooter and artist Mike Zeck, the Beyonder first appeared in ''Secret Wars'' #1 (May 1984) as an unseen, nigh-omnipote ...

KOS-MOS ( recursive acronym for Kosmos Obey Strategical Multiple Operation System) is a fictional character from the ''Xenosaga'' role-playing video game series by Monolith Soft and Bandai Namco Entertainment. KOS-MOS also appears as a major character ...

, a ''Xenosaga'' character * Sailor Cosmos, a ''Sailor Moon'' character

Film and TV

Films

* ''Cosmos'' (1996 film), a Canadian film * ''Cosmos'' (2010 film), a Turkish film * ''Cosmos'' (2015 film), a French film directed by Andrzej Żuławski, based on the novel by Gombrowicz * ''Cosmos'' (2019 film), a British film

Television

* '' Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'' (1980), a 13-part documentary television series presented by Carl Sagan ** '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'' (2014), a sequel to ''Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'' presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson ** '' Cosmos: Possible Worlds'' (2020), a sequel to ''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'' presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson * PLP (TV channel), formerly known as Cosmos, a local radio and television station serving Elis, southwestern Greece * ''

Ultraman Cosmos is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series being the twelfth entry (seventeenth overall) show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, ''Ultraman Cosmos'' aired from July 7, 2001 to September 28, 2002, with a total of 65 episodes, which c ...

'', a Japanese TV series

Music

Classical

*''Cosmos'', a 1961 composition for two pianos by

Péter Eötvös Péter Eötvös (, ; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher. After studies of composition in Budapest and Cologne, Eötvös composed film music in Hungary from 1962. He played with the Stockhaus ...

*"Cosmus", a 1921–1922 pair of art songs by

Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he d ...

Groups

Cosmos (band) Vocal Group Cosmos (commonly known as Cosmos) was a Latvian a cappella band that formed in Riga in 2002. The band comprised singers Jānis Šipkēvics, Andris Sējāns (both countertenors), Juris Lisenko (tenor), Jānis Ozols (baritone), Jāni ...

, a 2002–2010 Latvian a capella band * Cosmos, a house music project of DJ

Tom Middleton Tom Middleton (born 18 August 1971) is a British electronic recording artist, sound designer, composer, music producer, remixer and DJ. His solo albums include '' Lifetracks'' (2007), ''Glasstracks'' (2011) and ''Sleep Better'' (2018). Middleto ...

* Cosmos, a 1980s Japanese jazz fusion group featuring Keiko Doi * Cosmos, a 2002 Japanese music duo featuring

Sachiko M Sachiko Matsubara (Japanese: 松原幸子; born 1973), better known by her stage name Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician. Her first solo album, ''Sine Wave Solo'', was released in 1999. Working in collaboration with Ami Yoshida under the name Cosm ...

and Ami Yoshida

Albums

* ''Cosmos'' (B.I album) or the title song, 2021 * ''Cosmos'' (Buck-Tick album) or the title song, 1996 * ''Cosmos'' (Lou Donaldson album), 1971 * ''Cosmos'' (McCoy Tyner album) or the title track, 1977 * ''Cosmos'' (Rogério Skylab album), 2020 * ''Cosmos'' (The Send album), 2007 * ''Cosmos'' (Sun Ra album) or the title track, 1977 * ''Cosmos'' (Zombi album), 2004 * ''Cosmos'', by

Yuji Ohno is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly ''Lupin III'', and most famously the 1977 series '' Lupin III Part II'' and the feature film '' The Castle of Cagliostro''. E ...

, 1981 * ''K.O.S.M.O.S'', by Valensia, 1996

Songs

* "Kosmos" (song), by Antic Cafe, 2004 *"Cosmos", by Paul Epworth from ''

Voyager Voyager may refer to: Computing and communications * LG Voyager, a mobile phone model manufactured by LG Electronics * NCR Voyager, a computer platform produced by NCR Corporation * Voyager (computer worm), a computer worm affecting Oracle ...

'', 2020 *"Kosmos", by Paul Weller from ''

Paul Weller John William Weller (born 25 May 1958), better known as Paul Weller, is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame in the late 1970s as the guitarist and principal singer and songwriter of the rock band the Jam, alongside ...

'', 1992 *"Cosmos", by

Will Sergeant William Alfred Sergeant (born 12 April 1958) is an English guitarist, best known for being a member of Echo & the Bunnymen. He is the group's only constant member. Career As a solo artist, Sergeant focused on minimalism and atmospherics, and u ...

, 1995

Companies

* Cos.Mo.S, an Italian firm who made swimmer delivery vehicles for

frogmen A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater. The term often applies more to professional rather than recreational divers, especially those working in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some Europea ...

to ride * Cosmos, a coach company, part of Globus family of brands * Cosmos Books, an imprint of

Wildside Press Wildside Press is an independent publishing company in Cabin John, Maryland. It was founded in 1989 by John Betancourt and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limite ...

* Cosmos Holidays, UK independent tour operator *

Kosmos (company) A/S Kosmos was a shipping and industrial company from Sandefjord. It was founded in 1928 by Anders Jahre, Svend Foyn Bruun, Sr. and Anton Barth von der Lippe as Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S. In 1949 Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S (A/S Kosmos) ...

, a Norwegian shipping company *

Kosmos (publisher) Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG is a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the nor ...

, a publisher of books, toys and games *

Kosmos Airlines Kosmos Airlines (Russian language, Russian: КОСМОС производственное объединение, ''KOSMOS Proizvodstvennoe obiedinenie'') is a Russian airline founded in 1995 which specialises in the delivery of cargo to launch ...

, a Russian airline * Kosmos Energy, an oil company

Computing and technology

* Azure

Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service offered by Microsoft. It is designed to provide high availability, scalability, and low-latency access to data for modern applications. Unlike traditional relational databas ...

, a database by Microsoft, previously called DocumentDB *

Cosmos (operating system) C# Open Source Managed Operating System (Cosmos) is a toolkit for building GUI and command-line based operating systems, written mostly in the programming language C# and small amounts of a high-level assembly language named X#. ''Cosmos'' is ...

, a framework aimed for creating .NET (mostly C#)-based operating systems *

COSMOS (telecommunications) COSMOS (Computer System for Main Frame Operations) was a record-keeping system for main distribution frames (MDFs) in the Bell System, the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T–led system which provided telephone services ...

, a distribution frame record-keeping system * COS/MOS, a family of integrated circuits * COSMOS, a

molecular modelling Molecular modelling encompasses all methods, theoretical and computational, used to model or mimic the behaviour of molecules. The methods are used in the fields of computational chemistry, drug design, computational biology and materials scien ...

software package * Cosmos, developer of a database based on the

Pick operating system The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processin ...

Sport

New York Cosmos (1970–85) New York Cosmos may refer to * New York Cosmos (1970–1985) The New York Cosmos (simply the Cosmos in 1977–1978) were an American professional association football, soccer club based in New York City and its suburbs. The team played home ...

, an American soccer club based in New York City *

New York Cosmos (2010) The New York Cosmos is an American professional soccer club based in Uniondale, New York, that most recently played in the third-tier league National Independent Soccer Association (NISA). The organization, established in August 2010, is a ...

, an American soccer club based in New York City * AM Cosmos Ljubljana, a Slovenian football club from 1992 to 1993; since renamed to

NK Ljubljana Nogometni klub Ljubljana (), commonly referred to as NK Ljubljana or simply Ljubljana, was a Slovenian football club based in the capital city of Ljubljana. The club was established in 1909 and dissolved in 2005. History Foundation The club wa ...

Canberra Cosmos FC Canberra Cosmos Football Club was an Australian association football, soccer club based in Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. It participated in the National Soccer League from the 1995/96 season until the end of the 2000/01 seas ...

, a former Australian football based in Canberra * Cosmos de Bafia, a Cameroonian football club based in Bafia *

Jomo Cosmos F.C. Jomo Cosmos is a South African association football, soccer club based in Johannesburg that plays in the SAFA Second Division, ABC Motsepe League. The club is owned and coached by South African football legend Jomo Sono. At the end of the 2021 ...

, a South African football club based in Johannesburg * OR Tambo Cosmos, a South African football club based in Mthatha * S.S. Cosmos, a Sanmarinese football club * Umbelebele Jomo Cosmos F.C., a Swazi football club based in Mbabane *

Cosmos FK The cosmos (, ; ) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word ''cosmos'' implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. The cosmos is studied in cosmologya broad discipline covering ...

, a Swedish football club based in

Östersund Östersund (; ) is an Urban areas in Sweden, urban area (Stad (Sweden), city) in Jämtland in northern Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-larg ...

Other uses

Cosmos (category theory) In the area of mathematics known as category theory, a cosmos is a symmetric closed monoidal category that is complete and cocomplete In mathematics, a complete category is a category in which all small limits exist. That is, a category ''C'' is co ...

, a complete and cocomplete symmetric closed monoidal category in mathematics * ''Cosmos'' (plant), a genus of plants in the daisy family * Kosmos (political party), a Greek political party * Cosmos (standard), certification requirements for organic and natural cosmetics in Europe *

COSMOS cohort study COSMOS is a cohort study of mobile phone use and health. The study will investigate the possible health effects of long-term use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies. It is an international study being conducted in five European countr ...

, a medical investigation of mobile phone health risks *

Atari Cosmos The Atari Cosmos was an unreleased product by Atari, Inc. for the handheld/tabletop electronic game system market that uses holography to improve the display. It is similar to other small electronic games of the era that used a simple LED-based d ...

, a game system * California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science *

International Cosmos Prize The International Cosmos Prize was established in 1993, commemorating Expo '90 in Osaka, Japan. The objective of the prize was to develop the basic concept of Expo '90, "The Harmonious Coexistence between Nature and Humankind" and is awarded by t ...

* USC&GS ''Cosmos'', an American survey ship * Cosmos Nickel Mine, a mine in Western Australia * Oshan Cosmos, a minivan produced by Changan Oshan