There are numerous Class M planets in the galaxy.
Many have attractive females who catch Captain Kirk’s eye.
All of them have humanoid inhabitants. And all of the aliens speak English.
Hey! I got an idea. Let's throw hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars at this to make sure.
For some, the discovery of life elsewhere would be the culmination of centuries worth of work to deny the existence of God. However, it is as relevant as the existence of life at the bottom of an ocean or in Antarctica.
Either you accept the arguments of believers that all was created by God or you don’t. Life elsewhere has to be absolutely assumed.
The planets are so close to their sun they are gravitationally locked, with one side constantly facing their sun. They likely have no moon, so no tides (even if they were to have a liquid ocean). In addition to "sunlight" the planets' atmosphere (if they actually have one) would be blasted from their sun's high-energy plasma bursts. And note the subtle use of "only" in this MIT News excerpt:
"The two innermost planets orbit the star in 1.5 and 2.4 days, though they receive only four and two times the amount of radiation, respectively, as the Earth receives from the sun. The third planet may orbit the star in anywhere from four to 73 days, and may receive even less radiation than Earth. Given their size and proximity to their ultracool star, all three planets may have regions with temperatures well below 400 kelvins, within a range that is suitable for sustaining liquid water and life."
When aliens find us, we are so screwed.
Has China or Russia claimed these planets yet?
Gonna be hard to detect life at this distance.
We can give the first one we land on the Latin name “Trailorus Parkus”