https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/15/super_earth_orbiting_barnards_star/

A planet three times the size of Earth has been spotted orbiting Barnard's Star, one of the closest suns to our Solar System.

Various science-fiction authors – notably Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Moorcock – have written about an alien world around Barnard's Star, which at six light years away is relatively close to our corner of the galaxy. If the futurists at the Breakthrough Starshot campaign are right, we could get a probe to such a system within 30 years from launch using today's tech.