Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

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So educate me, AF.

Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?

It's not clear where the next habitable planet is - because we don't yet know which ones of the potentially habitable ones have nice atmospheres. This will slowly change now with spectroscopic investigations of planet atmospheres becoming more and more feasible. For proxima b, there are e.g. concrete plans how to do it. Remember that if we'd detect venus from far away, we'd count it as a planet in the habitable zone and wouldn't know that it suffers from runaway greenhouse effect before studying its atmosphere

Appreciate the reply.