Space

Too true. I don't know how many articles like this I've read over the last few years. The title suggests with weasel-words that an Earth-like paradise planet capable to supporting carbon/water based life has been found.

But then when you dig into the details there's always one or more catches that complicate things. Things like:

• It's a super Earth several times the mass of our Earth (as is the case here).
• It doesn't have tectonic activity and/or a magnetosphere.
• There are actually zero signs of water.
• It's barely inside the habitable zone, so it'll either be very hot or very cold.
• The atmosphere turns out to be very toxic to life as we know it.
• The star it orbits is highly volatile.
• The star it orbits is a red dwarf (which while isn't necessarily a deal-breaker it does present other challenges).
• Its parent star system is very volatile and print to heavy colliding of other hazards.

I've wondered why the habitable world spin is picked up so much. That makes a lot of sense that it's being promoted to help get funding for post-graduate studies.