If our planet was closer to our sun it'd be a wasteland, plain and simple. The '' habitable '' zone is freaking thin and even then it doesn't guarantee life. The Earth as we know it only exists because of a ton of lucky coincidences.
And if the sun had been cooler maybe Venus could've housed life, though it depends if the extreme greenhouse effect that's affecting the planet would've happened in that case.
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