OK this is some crazy stuff.  Scientists find an exoplanet by a new star.  They think that life can't live there but what do those braniacs know?  I believe that if we find a way to send a space probe 10 light years then we should send it right away.  Lets not wait for the future because the future is now.  Some one needs to find out how to send a probe into uncharted places into the universe.  Tell me all about my post.  I want to know if I kinda lost trak of what I was talking about.

I'm sure scientists would love to send a probe to the closest exoplanet, but the technology isn't even close yet.  You mentioned a 10 lightyear visit, let's look at that;

Our current fastest space probe is Voyager 1 at 38,600 miles/hour.  Let's say we figured out how to increase that by 50 times to 1,930,000 MPH.  At that rate of speed our probe would take 3,469 years to make the 10LY journey, and then another 10 years for any information to start getting back to us.  Our best bet is to continue to develope better and better ways to find and observe exoplanets.

We can send probes to stars in the 10 ly range using nuclear propulsion.  .1c-.15c appears to be the range of speeds.  This would be a 100 year or a 75 year trip respectively, plus 10 years for return communications.

   A passing "bus" could launch a probe in the target star system, and avoid the problem of deceleration.

  The project would be expensive, longterm, and preent some risks, but it it feasible from an engineering standpoint.