That's not to say the discovery is a bust. GJ 1132b could help make sense of Venus, which may have started out as a watery planet but faced a runaway greenhouse gas effect that deprived it of oxygen and turned it hostile. If there's any oxygen left, you may be looking at a proto-Venus that hasn't quite finished its transition. And even if that's not the case, the model used here could explain other exoplanets.