The special conditions of the tundra make it barely habitable for humans.

The house may have been in a barely habitable state but, having sorted out the kitchen and a bedroom, their priority was to get the horticultural business up and running.

So devastated was the world that the planet was barely habitable for humanity and nature.

The craft crashed on a habitable planet, and at some point after the crash, controlled regeneration awoke the six crewmembers.

A first expedition of only robots was sent to find another habitable planet.

Among the known stars within 22 ly, it was listed with the 14 stars that were thought most likely to have a habitable planet.

The odds are a billion to one they could have randomly landed on a habitable planet.

There could be habitable planets only 13 light-years from us, scientists believe.

The internal rooms could be converted into a grand habitable space.

It's also large, with about 300 sq metres of habitable space.

However, very few cellars have the requisite head height for a habitable space (7ft, or just under 2.2m) and if you have to dig down or underpin, prices skyrocket.

In more recent science fiction, humans may create habitable space (by terraforming or constructing a space habitat) and call that a colony.

Fit-out (tenant work): the physical products and spaces controlled by the individual inhabitant or occupant used to make habitable space in a base building.

He said the programme would create 'skilled problem-solvers ... working together for a more peaceful, habitable world'.

Fading postcard names of places that the people who pinned them here on the very edge of the habitable world would never see again.

Shortly after, the humans found a nearly barren but habitable world hidden in a nebula.

Tucker soon finds a system with a habitable world, a journey of one day in the cramped pod.

They locate a habitable world, and the passengers become colonists.

This made it the first planet to be found in the 'habitable zone'.

Also, as noted above, the energy output of a star increases over time, so the habitable zone actually moves outward as the star ages.

Four in ten were orbited by rocky planets in the 'habitable zone' — the right distance for water to exist on the surface.

It lies in the star's 'habitable zone', at the right distance for it to harbour liquid water and so, potentially, life.

This puts them in the 'habitable zone', where life might be able to evolve.