Hunting for Dusty Trails: Ten New Exocomet Transits Discovered in Kepler Data

Using a neural network trained on simulated comet transits, P. Dumond and colleagues reanalyzed Kepler’s light curves and discovered ten new exocomet transits among 17 high-confidence detections. Their machine learning approach efficiently separated real signals from noise and revealed that exocomet activity occurs around both young and old stars, suggesting cometary systems may remain active throughout stellar lifetimes.