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

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?
Webb Captures the Treasure Chest at the Heart of the Carina Nebula

August 19, 2026

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina Nebula, which lies just 7500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel).
Interstellar Travel IV: Solar, Magnetic, & Directed-Energy Sails

August 19, 2026

In our fourth installment in the Interstellar Travel series, we'll examine solar sails, magnetosails, and directed-energy propulsion (DEP), which are currently the most plausible methods for reaching another star system within a human lifetime.
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula

August 17, 2026

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.
NASA's SkyFall Mars Helicopters Will Feature a Revolutionary Antenna Design

August 17, 2026

Engineers developed a unique fabric-based design for a ground-penetrating radar that will be a key instrument on NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters. The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface.
Hubble Reveals that Star Formation is Slowing Down in the Andromeda Galaxy

August 14, 2026

A team of scientists led by the University of Washington has studied how star formation is declining in the Andromeda galaxy using highly detailed Hubble surveys.
Europa's Interior Ocean Could be Harder to Reach Than We Thought

August 11, 2026

Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist, led a study suggesting that Europa’s icy shell may be a stronger barrier between the moon’s hidden ocean and its surface than previously thought.
Interstellar Travel III: Antimatter to the Rescue?

August 10, 2026

With the end of the Space Age and the winding down of the Cold War, scientists again returned to the question of interstellar flight. Having failed to realize a working concept that could be realized in the near term, more exotic ideas began to be considered, reflecting further breakthroughs in theoretical physics.