earthlike

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One of the primary objectives of the Kepler mission was to find out how many stars hosted planets and especially to estimate the frequency of earthlike planets.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

“It seems possible to make it earthlike, but there's a lot of barriers to overcome,” Toon said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2015

Perhaps 0.000001 per cent exists in earthlike planets.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015

Or was the origin of winged insects, flying mammals like bats, and the roughly 10,000 species of birds that use earth’s atmosphere, simply a one-off evolutionary fluke likely never to repeat on another earthlike planet?

From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2014

Between the earth and the central fire there was, curiously enough, supposed to be an invisible earthlike body which was given the name of Anticthon, or counter-earth.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington