http://www.seeker.com/new-nearby-ear...970197349.html
TLDR? "Unnamed sources" claim scientists are about to announce discovery of an Earthlike planet orbiting in the Goldilocks zone of, get this, PROXIMA FUCKING CENTAURI.
4.35 ly away. That's reachable with 20th-century tech, let alone stuff we might come up with in the near future.