The universe is, give or take, around
13.8 billion years old, and therefore the furthest objects we can see are
13.7 billion light years away. However the universe is
forever expanding and therefore by the
time we see the object, it has already moved billions of light years away, making the sphere of the observable universe (technically) larger than
13.7 billion light years in radius. The actual size of the observable universe is closer to 46.
6 billion light years in radius, due to all the expansion and contains over 2 trillion galaxies. Everywhere in the universe has a point such as this, as our universe is theoretically infinite.
The observable
universe contain all that we can know of about the
cosmos at this very moment. Despite all we know, however, life itself, sentient or otherwise, has only been confirmed to exist on Sol III, otherwise known as good old planet
Earth!