On the contrary I think Maybe is a great answer because there is a chance of some kind of life somewhere else in space, but also a chance of nothing and we just don't know till we are able to study it and find out for ourselves.
Life doesn't have to be walking traveling aliens it could just be alien wildlife.
I really doubt that.
There are so many known forms of DNA life already, from the deepest pits to the extreme environs and maybe even in the high atmosphere and stratosphere (research is budding).
It is far less of a secure gamble to say 'there is no life anywhere' since the 90s and the discovery of exoplanets, or since the 10s with earth sized planets in habitable zones.
There is something out there. Mathematically, there are just too many galaxies, worlds, and time. Our planet was life bearing as early as around 4 billion years ago. Our own galaxy has 100-500 billion stars, many of them with Jovian worlds, we already know of around 4,000 exoplanets and nearly the same number of that in candidates.
Now whether or not whatever is closest to us, that they're technological or sapient, I doubt, but there are definitely some systems in reach (I define reach as say, anything within 20 LY, some good candidates in this range to look for - the Centauri systems, Tau Ceti, Delta Pavonis, 82 Eridani, Beta Hydri, Eta Cassiopeiae, Xi Bootis, with confirmed possibly habitable planets also within 20 ly at Luyten, Teegarden, Kapteyn, Wolf 1061c....) to at least look for some form of other life within the next few centuries. And I bet by 2030 this list of just what's within 20ly alone would have doubled.
We're probably not going to have Spock waiting for us in our neighborhood but there is most likely a few dozen technological civilizations in this very galaxy at this very time, we just can't communicate with them or reach them before they die out or we do. We may live out our whole existence and only find some ruins or debris afloat somewhere, but that'll be enough.
