ExoHabit Daily
An AI briefing app that turns new exoplanet discoveries (atmospheric escape, biosignatures, habitable-zone finds) into short, plain-language explainers for curious space fans and science-curious adults.
space enthusiasts and curious adults who follow astronomy news but can't read papers
- Daily 3-minute briefing on the latest peer-reviewed exoplanet news with a 'why it matters' hook
- Interactive 'habitability score' for each new planet using radius, temperature, and atmosphere data
- 'What does helium escaping actually mean?' explainers that translate jargon into everyday analogies
- Saveable personal archive so users can build a timeline of how exoplanet science evolved
JWST and ground-based telescopes are producing a steady drumbeat of habitable-zone discoveries; helium-escape findings are the kind of news that breaks briefly then disappears, leaving curious fans with no way to dig deeper
Existing free sources (Universe Today, NASA Exoplanet Watch, Planetary Society, DailySpace app, Exoplanet magazine) already serve this audience, and the cited HN post was a modest 51 points — real but niche interest.Universe Today - Space and Astronomy News ↗Exoplanet Watch Newsletters - NASA Science ↗
Crowded free landscape: Universe Today, NASA Science, Planetary Society, Exoplanet Magazine, NCCR PlanetS newsletter, and the Exoplanet catalog app already cover this beat — minimal differentiated whitespace for an AI explainer.Exoplanet ↗Exoplanet News — NCCR PlanetS ↗Exoplanet Exploration News - NASA Science ↗
NASA, Universe Today, and Planetary Society offer top-tier exoplanet coverage for free, and NCCR's exoplanet newsletter is also free — very hard to charge when free official sources dominate a niche audience.Universe Today - Space and Astronomy News ↗Exoplanet Watch Newsletters - NASA Science ↗
JWST continues producing exoplanet headlines (TRAPPIST-1e atmosphere in Sept 2025), and Roman, ARIEL, and ground-based ELT guarantee a multi-decade discovery pipeline.Webb spots first hints of atmosphere on a potentially potentially habitable world ↗JWST Exoplanet Breakthrough Discoveries 2025 | Zendar Universe ↗
Straightforward LLM + arxiv/NASA API pipeline to summarize abstracts, but scientific accuracy and tone require curation; mobile-app distribution and summarization are well-trodden territory.Exoplanet ↗