[Drew68]

As the article notes, the planets at the right distances are probably tidally locked with the star.

I could be wrong but it seems to me that most of the exo-planets they've found have been close and tidally-locked. These are probably the easiest planets to detect which would explain their abundance so far.

[Moonman62]

I think it’s true that the types of exoplanets we know about are skewed by the ability of our current technology.

[UCANSEE2]

I could be wrong but it seems to me that most of the exo-planets they've found have been close and tidally-locked. These are probably the easiest planets to detect which would explain their abundance so far.

Let's put the shoe on the other foot.

If we lived on a planet around the STAR in this article, and looked back at Earth, would we be able to detect it ?

Wouldn't the chance to detect it only happen ONCE A YEAR ?