home planet
Where you're from
Home planet is the planet where a person or species originates—Earth, for humans.
The term appears mainly in science fiction, where characters from different worlds need to specify their origins: She longed to return to her home planet.
It occasionally appears in environmental rhetoric emphasizing Earth as humanity's only habitat: We have a responsibility to protect our home planet.
- worldPlanet or realm
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- pale blue dotEarth seen from space
- skyVisible overhead expanse
- terrestrialRelating to land
third rock · water · belonging · heritage · biosphere · civilization · habitable zone · terra · ecosystem · astronomy · Gaia · ancestry · geography · first contact · soil · sun · interstellar travel · space exploration
- Earth namesterra, blue marble, pale blue dot, third rock
home planetdeep space
Remote regions beyond planets
interstellar space · the void · spaceship · space station · hyperspace
home, planet, homes, homed, homing, homeland, homeward, homestead, homeless