ExoAtlas is a web-based space-visualization platform that turns live scientific data from NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and the IAU Minor Planet Center into tools anyone can use from your phone, in your browser, for free.
To make the Solar System and humanity's growing footprint within it, visible, understandable, and useful. We built ExoAtlas to bridge the gap between raw orbital data and intuitive tools because we believe that awareness of our space environment is the first step. By empowering people to learn from, plan with, and build upon this knowledge, we are fostering the knowledge needed to protect Earth today while developing the framework for an interplanetary tomorrow.
ExoAtlas is built and maintained by a small team with backgrounds in astrodynamics. Rather than stitching together off-the-shelf widgets, its orbital mechanics, ephemerides, and visualizations are implemented from first principles — the same physics used for mission planning, recomputed live in your browser. The platform deliberately avoids heavy front-end frameworks and third-party tracking SDKs, so pages stay fast, lightweight, and privacy-respecting. Live data is pulled directly from primary scientific sources — NASA JPL, the U.S. Space Force, and the IAU Minor Planet Center — and refreshed on automated schedules. It’s an independent project, shipped in public and improved continuously based on what the community asks for.
ExoAtlas grows in public. Here's a high-level view of what's shipping, what's next, and what's on the horizon.
Every dataset on ExoAtlas comes from publicly-available scientific archives — never scraped from third parties. Planetary and small-body positions are derived from NASA JPL Horizons; asteroid and comet orbits track the IAU Minor Planet Center; satellite and debris states come from U.S. Space Force tracking; and observing conditions use NOAA public weather services. Each feed is ingested on its own automated cadence — from minutes for fast-moving launch and close-approach data to daily or weekly for slowly-evolving orbital catalogs — and every figure on the site carries a freshness indicator so you always know exactly how current it is. When a source is delayed or unavailable, ExoAtlas shows the last verified value rather than guessing.
ExoAtlas is shaped by the people who use it. If you’ve found a bug, want a feature, or just want to say hello, we’d love to hear from you.