When it comes to reporting of potentially habitable exoplanets, it is not difficult to see an interesting trend, i.e., a more honest approach to previous discoveries.
They are suddenly seen as less plausible candidates for life or they are simply forgotten.
The recent discovery of the planet Ross 128 b, which orbits a red dwarf star 20 times closer than Earth orbits the Sun, follows this tendency.
Many planets orbiting them might be tidally locked, with the same side always facing the star.
However, astronomers think that of Ross 128 b might receive less solar radiation although they are not sure whether it orbits its star in the habitable zone.
It is roughly Earth-sized with a temperature assumed to be between -60 and +20°C.
And then it’s still a giant leap from being potentially habitable to actually being habited. There’s no life without information, no information without design, and no design without a Designer.