Sentence examples for habitable Earths from inspiring English sources

So, given time, says Seager, habitable Earths will turn up.

Assuming 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, that would be 11 billion potentially habitable Earths, rising to 40 billion if red dwarfs are included.

The 42 devices of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) have already taken a preliminary look at Kepler-452b, the potentially habitable, Earth-like planet whose discovery was announced last week.

SETI's resurrection was announced at the start of a weeklong conference here devoted to results from the Kepler satellite, which is conducting a cosmic Gallup poll to determine the fraction of stars that harbor habitable, Earth-like planets.

Based on Kepler's planetary haul so far, astronomers have estimated that there could be as many as 11bn habitable Earth-sized planets in orbit around sun-like stars in the Milky Way, our own galaxy of 200bn stars.

Based on Kepler's results, astronomers have suggested there could be as many as 40bn habitable, Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, travelling around red dwarfs or stars similar to our sun (yellow dwarfs).

The nearest habitable, Earth-sized planet could be just 13 light-years away, research suggests.

"Habitable Earth-like planets are very vulnerable if there are giants in the system," he said.

So is our solar system really an exceptional place, or are habitable, Earth-like planets very numerous?

All of this bodes well for future microlensing searches, as well as for finding habitable, Earth-size exoplanets.

It also shows that, with some luck and some innovative new technology, astronomers could be announcing the discovery of a habitable Earth-like exoplanet within a few years.