A hotter and puffier version of earth has been spotted circling a distant star.it's called KOI-314c,located about 200 light-years away and has almost the same mass as earth.but its atmosphere is extremely thick and this makes it 60% larger than earth,scientists say.

Its average surface temperature is 104°Celsius,so its unable to support life.

David Kipping,one of the leading astrophysicist in the project informs that even having the same mass as earth,it's definitely not earth-like.it orbits its parent red dwarf star once every 23 days.

"This planet might have the same mass as Earth, but it is certainly not Earth-like," David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), lead author of the discovery, said in a statement. "It proves that there is no clear dividing line between rocky worlds like Earth and fluffier planets like water worlds or gas giants."

"When we noticed this planet showed transit timing variations, the signature was clearly due to the other planet in the system and not a moon. At first we were disappointed it wasn't a moon, but then we soon realized it was an extraordinary measurement," Kipping said.

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