Kepler Telescope - Exoplanet Finder

Kepler deep space telescope has found over 1000 Earth like planets, most revolve around red-dwarf and brown-dwarf suns, a lot are tidal locked (no axis rotation while orbiting around their star).  All of these planets sit within habitable ranges - now we await the process of elimination.  Most probably a large portion of these planets orbiting brown-dwarf stars would have been sterilized from extreme ultraviolet and UV radiation, or in the case of red-dwarf stars extreme cold (dark-side of planet) and heat (facing their star).  The Goldilocks theory for all these these planets is a little premature.  In the meantime SETI has aimed their Allen telescope array in the direction of the most likely habitable planets, but to no avail.

Considering Kepler only scans a small portion of the Galaxy, it can only get better.   

Next, will be the search for alien civilization heat waste signs (technology), also looking for satellites, probes and craft.

Or maybe advanced lifeforms in our Galaxy are no longer here but live in the shadow Galaxy via dark matter.  In other words they have evolved into a dynamic beyond our comprehension.  What we will view is the remnants.   Planetary shells.