The comic watchmen is quoted as saying "Why do we argue? A successful virus on a speck of mud floating through nothing", the reality of that quote is deeply enlightening and in a sense scary. The question is what is out there, but the real question is will we ever know. We are a speck of mud, spinning around a tiny firefly, our sun. We exist in such a small part of space, our solar system is invisible to even the largest star alone.
To the earth you are nothing,
To the solar system the earth is nothing,
To the galaxy the solar system is nothing,
To the observable universe, the galaxy is nothing.
To the universe, it's possible that the observable universe is nothing.
Also another quote from watchmen, "When we look at a star, there light takes so long to reach us, all we ever see is their old photographs"