Alethia

Revealing the science of life beyond Earth

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🪐 Aletheia

Revealing the science of life beyond Earth.

🌟 Overview

Aletheia is an AI-powered exploration platform that unveils insights hidden within NASA’s bioscience publications.
Designed for scientists, mission planners, and students, it transforms over six decades of space biology research into interactive, accessible knowledge.

This project directly addresses the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025 by converting an overwhelming archive of 600+ bioscience publications into an intelligent, interactive knowledge system.
Instead of manually searching through dense technical papers, Aletheia uses:

  • 🧠 AI-driven summarization
  • 🌐 Knowledge graphs
  • 🔎 Semantic retrieval & search

…to reveal patterns, insights, and relationships across decades of space biology research.

Aletheia empowers decision-makers and researchers to build upon NASA’s legacy data — exposing trends, knowledge gaps, and transformative findings.
It turns passive archives into living knowledge, making space bioscience both discoverable and inspiring.

✨ Features

  • 🔍 Search with AI – Natural-language search across NASA’s space biology corpus
  • 🕐 Timeline – Interactive research history visualization over decades
  • 🔗 Knowledge Graph – Dynamic graph linking studies, topics, and missions
  • 🎙️ Podcast Creator – Auto-generate short dialogues to explain discoveries
  • 📚 Comic Generator – Turn research stories into engaging visual comics
  • 🎴 Flash Cards – Learn space biology concepts interactively
  • 🧭 Accessible NASA-inspired UI – Clean, responsive, and public-friendly

🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer Technologies
Frontend Next.js 15 · TypeScript · TailwindCSS v4 · shadcn/ui
Backend LightRAG for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Data NASA Space Biology Publications (600+ open-access studies)
Visualization Interactive graphs, timelines, and learning tools

🚀 Getting Started

1️⃣ Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+
  • npm or yarn
  • Python 3.10+ (if running LightRAG backend)

2️⃣ Setup Frontend

cd front_end
npm install
npm run dev

Visit http://localhost:3000

3️⃣ Setup LightRAG Backend

cd lightrag
pip install -e ".[api]"
lightrag-server

Add your OpenAI API key or preferred LLM to .env. Aletheia uses LightRAG to power AI search & knowledge graph features.

🌌 Data Sources

🌠 Future Enhancements

  • 🔬 Deeper semantic search with custom embeddings
  • 🌍 Real-time OSDR API integration
  • 🧑‍🚀 Mission-planning dashboards for human spaceflight
  • 🌐 Multi-language support
  • 🪐 AR/VR learning experiences for space bioscience

👩‍🚀 Team

Odd One Bit — Built with ❤️ during the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025.

📄 License

MIT License — Open for educational and research use.

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