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Do metal-poor stars have terrestrial planets?

• goodcanadian 5y ago
  The short answer is we don't know; it is not something we can directly observe. However, they are not expected to have them as the elements to form them would not have been present when the star was formed.
• qart 5y ago
  With the universe being so big, lots of highly unlikely phenomena are bound to happen here and there. Like if the terrestrial planet originated from a metal-rich star system, got kicked out by gravitational slingshot, wandered for a while, and happened to come near a metal-poor star with a suitable velocity. But this would be an extremely rare.