earth-like

The eventual discovery of truly earth-like planets around other stars may usher in a complete turn-around in attitude by the general public.

That Was Then - This Is Now - NASA Watch 2009

In a solar system far, far away, astronomers have discovered a planet with certain earth-like conditions that could sustain life.

Patricia Draznin: GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find Patricia Draznin 2010

-- A spacecraft is launched to look for other earth-like planets.

Short Takes 2009

You see earth-like mountains floating, I see a living planet with different parts of a body.

Avatar: The Good and The Bad 2010

After years of experimenting with artificial gravity machines, I have come to believe it is more beneficial that we adapt to the environment outer space, by learning how to spin without getting dizzy (easy to do), rather than creating an earth-like environment, by spinning the space station.

Yet Another Worthwhile Education Program Shuts Down - NASA Watch 2009

In a solar system far, far away, astronomers have discovered a planet with certain earth-like conditions that could sustain life.

Patricia Draznin: GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find Patricia Draznin 2010

In 2154, a joint military/corporate effort from a dying earth seeks to exploit the mineral resources of an earth-like moon circling a gas giant in a distant solar system.

"...bows and arrows against the lightning."* greygirlbeast 2009

I realize there are billions of stars and planets out there and finding even a handful of "earth-like" planets would be great, but aren't we going to miss most of the possibilities?

Kepler Is On Its Way - NASA Watch 2009

So Seti experiments often train their radio ears on star systems that seem most likely to host earth-like worlds.

Alien life – but not as we know it 2010

Launched by NASA, in 2009, Kepler is designed to search for earth-like planets, small rocky planets in the habitable comfort zones from their host stars -- neither too hot, nor too cold.

Santhosh Mathew, PhD: The Dawn of the Exoplanets 2010