earthlike

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Larger planets like Jupiter block out more starlight than small earthlike planets, making transits by giant planets easier to detect, even from ground-based observatories.

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

The great elevated plain of Retama separates the black, basaltic, and earthlike lava, from the vitreous and feldsparry lava, the basis of which is obsidian, pitch-stone, and phonolite.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina