Matthew Williams

Matt Williams is a space journalist, science communicator, and author with several published titles and studies. His work is featured in The Ross 248 Project and Interstellar Travel edited by NASA alumni Les Johnson and Ken Roy. He also hosts the podcast series Stories from Space on Patreon. He lives in beautiful British Columbia with his wife and family. For more information, check out his website.

Recent Articles

Tens of Thousands of Fast Radio Bursts Could Help Solve the Greatest Cosmic Mysteries

September 14, 2026

A new study led by researchers from Caltech demonstrates the effectiveness of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as a tool for measuring cosmological distances and the clustering of matter.
A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy

September 13, 2026

The most comprehensive catalogue of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion.
eROSITA's Second Data Release Catalog Delivering the Most Comprehensive High-Energy Census of the Cosmos to Date

September 10, 2026

The eROSITA Consortium has issued the survey's second data release (DR2), nearly doubling the previously known eROSITA X-ray sources to two million.
New Revelations About the Origin of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

September 10, 2026

UK astronomers have uncovered new clues about the origin of 3I/Atlas – only the third known object from beyond our Solar System ever spotted in our cosmic neighbourhood.
New Research Says that Early Galaxies Could be Sending us Neutrinos

September 10, 2026

Those "Little Red Dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, galaxies that existed during the very early Universe, could be sending neutrino particles that are reaching us today.
Japan's Hayabusa2 Achieves First-Ever Laser Ranging Experiment with an Asteroid

September 08, 2026

On Sunday July 5th, 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) achieved the first-ever successful laser ranging experiment while making a flyby of an asteroid.
Rubin Observatory Peers Deep Into the Famous COSMOS Field

September 07, 2026

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field.
Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.

September 06, 2026

Astronomers have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light years away, demonstrating a powerful new way to map the Universe.
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe

September 04, 2026

The newest DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map covers three-quarters of the sky and catalogs nearly four billion objects. This publicly-available database contains stars, galaxies, supernovae, gravitational lenses, and much more.
The 20th Data Release (DR 20) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is Here!

September 04, 2026

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has officially launched its twentieth data release (DR20), featuring updated data from multiple observations projects.
New Study Expands Search for "Dark Photons," a Leading Dark Matter Candidate

September 03, 2026

Cross-disciplinary research at Perimeter Institute and University of Maryland shows that dark photons could be lurking in more places than previously thought.
Physicists Determine Cause of "Runaway" Supermassive Black Hole

September 02, 2026

Researchers at UCSB and UT Austin have determined that a galactic merger kicked a supermassive black hole into intergalactic space.
NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission

August 29, 2026

Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to demonstrate key capabilities for the future of space exploration.
Interstellar Travel V: Warp Drives, Wormholes, and Halo Drives

August 29, 2026

In our fifth installment, we explore the most exotic proposals for interstellar travel, including the Alcubierre Warp Metric, wormhole travel, the Halo Drive, and other truly advanced concepts.
Why Astronauts' Lower Eyelids "Let Go" in Space

August 27, 2026

A new study identifies possible mechanisms behind changes in astronauts' lower eyelids, a symptom associated with long periods in space that can affect their eyesight.
Hubble Solves a Mystery About the Milky Way's Early Years

August 27, 2026

New data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy’s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before.
New Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Grow Together

August 26, 2026

Using a state-of-the-art galaxy simulation, a team led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) gained new insights into the processes shaping galactic centres across the Universe and the formation history of the Milky Way.
Astronomers Use Rare Ultra-Magnetic Star to Crack a Quantum Mystery

August 23, 2026

An international team observed a magnetar known as 1E 1547.0–5408 using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), leading to what could be the first detection of vacuum birefringence taking place in the magnetar’s ultra-strong magnetic field. These findings could potentially resolve a long-standing mystery quantum mechanics.
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers

August 22, 2026

Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particular class of objects they observed come in pairs that always include a compact dead star, called a white dwarf, locked in orbit with an M dwarf, a red star smaller than our Sun.
The CosmoCube Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon

August 21, 2026

A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the universe’s first stars appeared?