I was just wondering what other peoples opinion is on this matter.

I am wondering a lot about this topic myself, as everyone is at some point in their lives.
We always want to know more, to understand not just how we work but why we work like that... we want to tap into the weath of knowlage that each of us seems to have locked away... we want to know if einstein was right when he asid we only use 10% of out brain capacity...
Since no one knows how to find this out.. we go back to the start and try to find how we began, and so the biggest question of life is asked... how were we created? The big bang? God? Something we haven't thought of?
As humans we have been given not the knowlage of the universe but the curiosity to seek it
I hope I helped

It seems to me odd that there are so few answers to this question that you asked over two years ago.

This question could be taken at least two ways. When you say "our understanding of life in the universe" you seem to be implying that there is other life in the universe that we somehow understand. The phrase "life in the universe" would be generally taken to mean life other than that on the Earth. And we don't understand it at all.

Or you could be referring to our place as living creatures in the universe. We are so isolated at the present time from the rest of the universe that it seems almost irrelevant to refer to ourselves in that way.

But scientist are beginning to learn, for example, that the various atoms that compose our bodies and the rest of the world we know, were formed in exploding stars and other exotic processes that occur in remote places in the universe. It is an ever-expanding body of knowledge that will ultimately reveal that we as human beings are tied to the rest of the universe down to the very core of our being.

In short, the more we know about the universe, the more we will know about ourselves.