Yes. Personally I'd like to think that the Universe, for all its apparent infinity, wouldn't be so —
boring — as to be easily figured out by a single species operating within a very limited sensory window, that have yet to leave the comfort of their chair as it were (our home planet), in barely just 200 orbits around their star..
I'm no scientist but I wonder if there isn't a TON of things that we've just been assuming to apply universally.
If all matter in a solar system is largely formed from the same cloud or nebula, then it must limit what we can learn from our sun and neighboring planets, and asteroids or comets.
Other systems may have radically different composition and occurrences of different elements and their isotopes, maybe effectively having different periodic tables, so to speak. The size, gravity, color, radiation of a star may have great influence on how planetary matter forms and interacts with each other; maybe water will have different observable properties in such different systems.
As for life; we have yet to catalogue the complete scale of life on Earth alone. We still get surprised by discoveries like Tardigrades and deep sea creatures. I'm sure the Infinity of the universe has even more surprises in store.
There may be creatures flying around in dense nebulas, not bound to any planet.
There may be rogue planets drifting through interstellar darkness with no sun to orbit, but still supporting life under the surface near their warm cores.
There may be little asteroids inside gas giant planets, effectively making tiny solid worlds inside a sea of different gasses.
As for life that develops industry; just look at the bodies of octopuses and what they're capable of. It's a shame they have such short lives and hostile environments to contend with, though. For now.