Yes, of course. It must be life is present in other places because of the vast number of suns with planets. We are starting to see that planets are forming arou

Yes, of course. It must be life is present in other places because of the vast number of suns with planets. We are starting to see that planets are forming around stars in some ways similar to us, other ways different (it's hard to see earth like planets bc of limits of our technology). We already know rocks can get ejected from one planet in our own solar system, and thus have certainly the possibility to spread small bits of dna from earth to mars (and it could go the other way). We have seen the 4 dna bases (plus the one that is different is rna) in space. We have the extremely suggestive but not certain possibility that methane detected on mars is coming from biological processes. There is certainty on life in the universe elsewhere - at least microbial but I think it's certain that higher level life forms are there. We don't know nearly as much about advanced life, like say animals, plants over bacteria, much less intelligent life. But the universe is so huge, I think it's likely there are other places with intelligent life.