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The 'habitable zone' of the solar system, defined by astronomers according to distance from the Sun, contains the three Earth-like—or terrestrial—planets, Venus, Earth and Mars. The terrestrial planets were formed 4.6 billion years ago, coalescing from rings of debris around the sun during ...