habitable planet—a planet capable of supporting life:
- The possibility of another habitable planet is so tantalizing that scientists will devote countless hours to studying every piece of data.
inhabitable planet— = habitable planet:
- Today marks the beginning of hope that another inhabitable planet could exist beyond earth.
Note: The expression is antonymous in meaning to the phrase unhabitable planet—(also: uninhabitable planet) a planet incapable of supporting life:
- In unhabitable planets there should be extreme weathers. There should also be natural calamities like earthquakes and hurricanes.