Could Earth Have Formed Five Billion Years Ago?

It's still an open question in science what other planets are like and how earthlike there are. We don't know if there are a lot of earths out there teeming with life, or if we really do have a very, very special home in the universe. But it makes me wonder, could earth have formed earlier in the universe? The universe is expanding rapidly, and now things are further and further apart than they used to be. And so if we had been around five billion years ago, we could have seen a very different kind of night sky.We could have learned different things about the universe if we'd been around at an earlier epoch. Could there have been alien civilizations