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Originally Posted by Ninajrr  Not really. Our current technology isn't that amazing. Any solar-system close enough for our current technology to check for Earth-like planets have likely already been checked. |
Definitely the case. I remember in kindergarten back when Hubble first was put into orbit back in the early 90's, a guy from NASA came to school and showed off pictures of pluto (God rest its planetoid soul) and they were blurry as fuck. Considering Hubble is what we're still using today for a lot of our imaging, I don't expect us to have amazing data from more than a handful of planets outside our solar system nor to even have the capability to do much more.
Getting clear pictures of stuff from Earth is definitely out of the question too. Even minute fluctuations in temperature in the atmosphere produce things like twinkling stars that distort distant objects.