An interesting report. I note TESS info in it. "Though TESS has indeed identified some of those intriguing sort of Earth doppelgangers (again, depending on your definition), I would argue that its greatest discoveries are of the worlds that don't look like our home. The scary ones; the massive ones; ones similar to that diamond one that regrows its atmosphere like cockroaches grow heads and the one half-covered in lava like a parody of partial hell. To put TESS' own legacy into perspective, the exoplanet counter hit 4,000 in 2019, then hit 5,000 in 2020. One time, TESS data and Keck Observatory data caught 126 worlds in one go. Even citizen scientists have joined forces with TESS to unlock the next stage of what will one day be iconic exoplanet history and, every so often, TESS churns out a non-exoplanet discovery as well. See: Comet Burp."
The NASA archive sites shows all confirmed TESS, presently 491 today,
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
MS descriptive stats show min a = 0.00622, max a = 1.152, TESS is finding exoplanets inside 1.2 au distance from the parent stars in the confirmed list. The mean size is near 5.8 earth radii (478 show earth radii size), so most are large exoplanets. This site is exploding now in exoplanet counts,
https://exoplanet.eu/home/
I am still waiting to see confirmation in science that non-living matter evolved on exoplanets into life, eventually evolving into ET phoning home with abundant plant life too on ET home world
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