Related: The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile just confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b, a roughly Earth-sized exoplanet in Proxima Centauri’s habitable zone—the closest star to Earth, just 4 light-years away! https://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-conf...
Oh, and here's this topic's prerequisite xkcd: https://xkcd.com/786/
(We write about exoplanets really frequently on https://orbitalindex.com)