Things developed the way they did here because of the resources that were available here and the conditions that existed during the ages.
Ample supplies of both water and land, average temp stable enough that the entire planet does not turn into a glacier or a desert, availability of chemicals (i.e. we live on Oxygen but our atmosphere is more than 70% Nitrogen), a moon which controls the tides in a reasonably orderly fashion.
Just because a planet exists which is approximately 93,000,000 miles from a sun like ours does not mean life must exist there. Those are only the first of many, many requirements for life to grow. If you believe in evolution, these were the things that, over millions and billions of years, enabled life to take hold and not die off.
Odds say there is sentient life somewhere else in the universe. Whole civilizaitons could have grown and died off over the billions of years of the universe. Odds also say any such life is so far away from us that we may never find them.
Looking for an Earth sized planet around a Sol sized sun is a good start but it’s no guarantee of success.
Odds say there is sentient life somewhere else in the universe.
We can’t rationally asses the odds because despite some imaginative guesses we don’t know how life begins. And we currently can’t imagine any kind of life except our own DNA based life though we don’t know that it’s the only basis of life.