There is no actual evidence that Prometheus takes place on a different planet. There is a widely accepted "theory" that it takes place on LV-223 instead of the LV-426, but there is no hard evidence, other than word of mouth. Even if that is from the director himself; it's still word of mouth. The truth is: they screwed up on the continuity either on purpose (just to add one last scare), or on accident (just to add one last scare)--and LV-223 was just a way for fans to cope with the continuity error . . . which it is.
The reason why the atmosphere changed from Prometheus to Alien is because the spaceship which is in itself a terraforming mechanism crashed and hence, wasn't working properly. What happens when an oxygen super producing underground spaceship stops working? The area around it has becomes less full of oxygen. Without plantlife on earth, earth would have mor Carbon Dioxide in the air . . . and it's the same with Prometheus. The ship no longer produced oxygen and thus more carbon dioxide in the air many years in the future when the people from Alien landed on the planet (and the spaceship is in the exact same position, mind you).
And, likewise, the reason why there were no eggs in the fallen spaceship in Prometheus is because the alien that popped out of the super human's chest hadn't yet laid the eggs.
It's really quite obvious that Prometheus and Alien takes place on the same planet; or at least the writers wrote it for that reason because all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit the same way The Thing prequel fit with the events in original The Thing.
In conclusion, it being a different planet was only born to cope with this particular continuity error . . . and it is a continuity error. A BIG ONE. Such a big one that perhaps they (being perhaps Ridley Scott) would purposefully plant it.
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