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Out of the planets weve discovered, no. Theyre mostly gas giants too close to their star.
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Here is a reference to a table of extrasolar planets ordered by distances from their parent star. Note that HD73526 and each of those at larger distances could very likely harbor moons capable of life such as we may find on the Gallilean planets of Jupiter. It is difficult to overestimate the blind, illogical skill of evolution at embedding life throughout the universe.
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but what about out of our solar system? Is there life?
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I vote for life in each of the systems cited above, some of which will be intelligent. There could be earth sized planets at locations suited for life in these systems as well as many of the others with more closely orbiting giants. But then I'm a hyper-optimist about the ubiquitousness of life with a not undernourished paranoia about the effects of our contacting it....but contact it we will, we must.
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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?
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