- NASA will fund a feasibility study of a space-based Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER): Detecting and Characterizing All Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars Within 10 parsecs (30 light-years). https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Diffractive_Interfero_Coronagraph_Exoplanet_Resolver/ 8 comments futurology