Is it the astronomers, desiring continued (or increased) funding, or is it funding administrators, lacking in scientific knowledge, but eager to justify their jobs, or is it journalists, dreaming of being part of the fifth-column mainstream media, who are responsible for the “Earth-like” hype of yet another exoplanet, which for one reason or another, as usually mentioned at the end of the article after the hype, cannot support any biological life as we know or conceive it?
never know unless you look. There are 2 potential candidates right here in our solar system, maybe 3 that are much easier to look at than something light years away.
I know some folks don’t believe life is out their because of religious beliefs. For a universe that is infinite, why would God make it so empty and devoid of any other life?