Habitable

//ˈhæbɪtəbəl//

"Habitable" in a Sentence (13 examples)

For centuries, it was thought that Venus could not be habitable without terraforming.

All houses are supposed to be habitable.

European scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system.

Kepler uncovered several planets that are about the same size as Earth and orbit within the star's habitable zone, where liquid water, which is necessary for life, can exist.

For any star, it's possible to calculate the range of distances where orbiting planets could have liquid water on the surface. This is called the star's habitable zone.

Although Europa is thought to have the ingredients needed to support life—water, energy, organic compounds—it lies outside of our solar system's habitable zone.

And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Canaan.

"Finding water in a potentially habitable world other than Earth is incredibly exciting," said Angelos Tsiaras, lead author of the UCL report that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Can we make Mars habitable?

As sea level rises, some areas will no longer be habitable and maybe some homes and other structures will be removed.

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After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.

Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.

Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis.

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