There's talks of creating a long-range probe that could travel as fast as 1/4 the speed of light, which would make it capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in only 16 years, with a round trip taking only 32 years plus however long the probe is actually in the Alpha Centauri system collecting data.
Kal-El_Skywalker1998 t1_jd72h8b wrote
Reply to A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri by Aeromarine_eng
There's talks of creating a long-range probe that could travel as fast as 1/4 the speed of light, which would make it capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in only 16 years, with a round trip taking only 32 years plus however long the probe is actually in the Alpha Centauri system collecting data.